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Restless India voyage to land of mysticism and misery
A narrator sails from New York to India on the City of Elwood, passing Gibraltar and the Suez Canal. He encounters Port Said, Karachi, Bombay, the Parsee burial towers, Hindu cremations, and the crowded street life, noting climate, poverty, customs, and colonial contrasts with vivid, period tone.
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India
Elwood
Hudson River
Kipling
Mandalay
Suez
Atlantic
Azores
Ocean
Pernambuco
Brazil
Frederickshafen
Tarifa
Spain
Straits of Gibraltar
Europe
Africa
Ming
Gibraltar
North Africa
French Republic
Samuel
America
Nile
Port Said
Suez Canal
Far East
Egypt
London
mid-Africa
Yangstze
Lascar
Neptune
Ferdinand de Lasseeps
Dan
Britain
Canal
Gulf of Suez
Mount of Sinai
Red Sea
Arabian Sea
Indian Ocean
Karachi
Ulysses
Magellen
Bombay
Boston
Shanghai
Savannah
Davy Jones
Far
States
Malabar Hill
Ghats
Mims
Rajah
Prince of Wales Museum
Milabar Hill
Mecca
Allah
Persia
Soochanan