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stories with domes on each corner. The Rhaja is a young man 30 years old & recently married a wife officially, a girl only 8 years old which is now kept in his castle until old enough to assume the position of a wife. This is somewhat Chinese like in custom. The girl is the upper class or highest caste. At dusk we visited the Jharia Club & met many members it being club night. (26) At 2 P.M. I took the Bombay or Punjab Mail to Calcutta where I arrived at 8:30 P.M. In my compartment was a young Englishman, a chaplin of an Indian regiment fighting in Mesopotamia