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out of the carriage window as the train moves forward,
and the other by 2 study of the swarming hordes of idle
humanity that cluster about the stations when the train
stands still. In this way, too, we get glimpses of the great
cities of the East, and can emulate in the course of a
single week the record of those saintly or commercial
pilgrimages which occupied years, and which have left us
the story of these same cities in the medieval days of
history. The danger of such a process is the danger lest
we forget that a superficial view of men and cities is as a
glance at the illustrations of a great book without reading
its pages; and that to read the pages of such a book as
that represented by the continent of India requires attentive
 study before we can even master the rudiments of the
language in which it is written. The majority of Englishmen
 and Englishwomen leave India knowing as much
about the under currents of native existence and native
thought as they knew when first they arrived in the
country. To them one native is as another native, and
all natives are of one great alien family sharing a common
stock of doubtful principles, and living but to prey on the
European. Yet even the intelligent use of their eyes, as
they travel day by day from west to east, might teach
most Englishmen that there are more different “sorts” of
natives of India—by a great many—than there are of
natives of Europe.
Approaching Karachi from the west, long after the
Manora light has been sighted, nothing is visible of India
but that which stands on its immediate borderland, z.e. the
hills which divide Sind from Lus Bela. After a little while
Karachi itself is indicated by one solitary square tower,
dominating a flat, sandy plain; and presently the plain
breaks up into the irregularities of outline which betoken
the existence of a town round about. This tower belongs
to the parish church of Karachi, and was built as a landmark
 for sailors, in architectural emulation of an Italian
campanile. But it is the campanile without Italian
environment, and is as much in its right place as the
«Taj” would be in St. James's Park. The town of