360 pages
CONTENTS.
I. SOCIAL.
(1) Domestic Ann'ai.s, 1800-1810 1
(2) Domestic Aknals, 1810-1893 13
(3) Bombay, Social and Convivial, duriso the Past Hundred
Years 44
(4) Some St. Andrew's Dinners 62
(5) A Bombay Hotel Fifty Years Auo 68
(6) Bombay Hotel Scraps 70
(7) Some Cathedral Monuments . 72
(8) Some Statues and Portraits 81
(9) Garrison of Bombay, 1845 83
(10) Bombay, 1857.—A Forgotten Chapter 92
(11) Bombay Street Notes, 1810-1860 97
(12) The Black Death . 101
(13) The Wild Beasts of Bombay 107
II. BANKS AND MERCHANTS.
(1) The Old Bank op B)Mbay 110
(2) Bank of Western India 113
(3) Oriental Bank 117
(4) Bombay before Joint-Stock Banking 119
(5) Some Merchants of 1845, and their Methods op Business
CONTENTS.
III. ROADS BY SEA AND LAND.
PAGE (1) The Makers of the Red Sea Steam Navigation. . . . 134
(2) Waghobn 142
(3) The Fikst P. & O. Through the Canal from Bombay . . 146
(4) Across India in a Palkee 149
IV. CLUBS.
(1) A Bombay Golf Club 157
(2) Bombay Yacht Club in 1856 158
(3) Byculla Club, Early Days 159
(4) Byculla Club, 1856 164
(5) A Masonic Legacy
BIOGRAPHICAL.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
(1) Albuquerque 172
(2) Aquaviva 179
(3) Kino, the Pxrati; . 188
(4) Sterne's Eliza 196
(5) Sterne's Eliza's Last Letter to Daniel Draper . . . 200
(6) Private Life of WarbEN Hastings 205
(7) Was Nelson in Bombay? 210
(8) A Forgotten Trial ... 220
(9) Sir Bartle Frere 229
(10) The Men of Bombay in 1837 237
(11) People whom India has Forgotten 249
(12) A Bombay Obituary 261
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VI. HISTORICAL.
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(1) IlEnoDOTUs IN Mesopotamia 269
(2) The Macedonian Invasion 278
(3) Strabo on Egyft and India 286
(4) OSTIA TO OZEIN, A.D. 68 29 1
(5) Indian Notes on Pliny 305
(6) Indian Notes on the Crusades 313
(7) Mahratta Ballads, and Others 320
(rf) Brocken and other Spectres
