283 Town in southern India 90 miles west of Madras.
284 Jaipur: 140 miles west of Agra, capital city of Rajputana state; Gwalior: a town 60 miles south of Agra.
285 That is, Banda, a town 200 miles southeast of Agra.
286 City on the Ganges, 10 miles southeast of Delhi.
287 Butchers’.
288 Gifts.
289 Reference to the Bible, John 19:30: Christ’s last words.
290 Infectious disease in cattle.
291 Long, curling wave.
292 Equator.
293 Telegraph office.
294 Extortion.
295 Or Udaipur, a city 200 miles southwest of Jaipur.
296 Archaic name for Constantinople, known in modern Turkey as Istanbul.
297 (Aminabad, or Eminabad, a town on the Great Trunk Road, 14 miles southeast of Gujranwala (now Pakistan); Sahaigunge and Akola are villages near Eminabad.
298 Town 70 miles west of Patiala.
299 The Siwalik Hills, in southern Kashmir, which range in height up to 5,000 feet.
300 Acacia tree used for shade that grows in the Doon valley of the Siwaliks.
301 Or Lhasa, capital of Tibet.
302 Reference to the Bible, Luke 18:2: “There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man” (KJV).
303 Doctor’s.
304 Medicinal drugs made from roots.
305 Nutritive starch or jelly made from plants.
306 Hill station 135 miles east of Delhi.
307 Quotation from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (act 3, scene 1): “To be, or not to be: that is the question.”
308 You take the cake, you’re too much.
309 Covered litter.
310 Czar of Russia.
311 Who benefits by it? (Latin).
312 Fellows.
313 Rocky Mussoorie.
314 Rampur.- city on the Kosi River, 115 miles east of Delhi; Chini: village 70 miles northeast of Simla.
315 Town on the Hooghly (Hugli) River, 20 miles north of Calcutta.
316 Himalayan river, northeast of Kulu.
317 Mountain peaks that rise to more than 20,000 feet.
318 That is, Beyta; from district on the Gulf of Karachi (now Pakistan).
319 Frontier district east of Kashmir.
320 Report showing boundaries and property lines.
321 Mountain range in northern Kashmir.
322 Abbottabad: town 63 miles north of Rawalpindi (now Pakistan); Bunji: town in Kashmir, north of Srinagar, the capital; Astor: town in Kashmir, north of Srinagar.
323 Indus: one of the three great rivers of northern India; Han-lé: town in Kashmir southeast of Srinagar.
324 That is, Rampur Bashahr, Himalayan town 40 miles northeast of Simla.
325 That is, williwaw; a violent squall.
326 One of the main rivers of the Punjab.
327 Hunters.
328 Wicker basket.
329 Thar: a Himalayan wild goat; markhor: a large wild goat.
330 A double portion; reference to the Bible, 2 Kings 2:9: “I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me” (KJV).
331 Buddhist monk.
332 Reference to Frank Collins Baker, A Naturalist in Mexico: Being a Visit to Cuba, Northern Yucatan and Mexico, Chicago, 1895.
333 F. E. Sumichrast, author of books on Mexican fauna.
334 Unskilled workers subjected to forced labor.
335 Mongolia.
336 That is, Shamli, town 60 miles north of Delhi.
337 Unpaid labor that a vassal owes his feudal lord.
338 Familiar spirits.
339 Asiatic antelope.
340 Indian poet who died in 1518.
341 Precision surveying instrument with telescopic sight.
342 Iron-covered.
343 Deep valley.
344 Disconnected handwriting.
345 Town north of Simla.
346 Builder of the Hinis monastery, 18 miles southeast of Leh.
347 Pass northeast of Dharmsala, on the border of Kashmir.
348 Monastery in eastern Tibet, on the border of Bhutan.
349 That is, toward Bhutan, a semi-independent Hindu kingdom on the border of India and Tibet.
350 Christian.
351 Village 8 miles from Simla.
352 Town 35 miles northeast of Ambala.
353 Reference to Shakespeare’s Othello (act 5, scene 2) : “I have done the state some service.”
354 The Woman of Shamlegh was the heroine of an earlier story by Kipling, “Lispeth” (1888), in which she became Westernized and was jilted by an Englishman.
355 Mountain pass through the Himalayas near Chamba, in Kashmir.
356 Source of the Ganges River, in the Himalayas, near the Chinese border.
357 Square cloth head covers.
358 Acute infectious fever.
359 Emperor of Rome, A.D. 79-81.
360 Allusion to Shakespeare’s Hamlet (act 1, scene 5): “Murder most foul.”
361 That is, in articulo mortis: at the moment of death (Latin).
362 Potentially (Latin).
363 City 40 miles northeast of Delhi.
364 That is, Pashto, native language of Afghanistan.
365 Reference to al-Barak (Lightning), winged steed that took Mohammed from Mecca to Jerusalem, up to the presence of Allah in heaven and back again.
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