Through India and Burmah with Pen and Brush

Excerpt: "Down came the rain, sudden, heavy and terrible, seeming to quell even the sea''s rage and whelming those defenceless hundreds of dark-skinned voyagers in new and more dreadful misery. Terrors were upon them, and in abject wretchedness and hopeless struggle men, women and children spread every strip of their belongings over their bodies and even used for shelter the very mats upon which t...