When such a one becomes collector of a district his chitnis, or chief secretary, sees that that tide in the affairs of men has come which, "taken at the flood, leads on to fortune," and his caste-fellows all through the service are filled with unholy joy.

Four hundred years after the Rig-Veda was composed we come to the Brahmanic age, when the laws of Menu were written, when the Aryans were living in the valley of the Ganges, and the caste system had become national.

While before the law of the State he was the equal of any other man, caste prejudice prevented him from finding work at his trade of calker; and he therefore sought employment as a laborer.

He has his cutcherry, or office, where he and his tribe (for there are always numbers of his fellow caste men who help him in his books and accounts)

The priest, slow to heed them, at length deigned to dip his finger in a little paint and with it he smeared the caste mark on the foreheads of the worshipers.

For the low caste and the out-caste people there is no education unless it is Christian education.

Half-caste women were bought and sold, and flogged and branded.

Demons have to be propitiated, the caste rules are strictly kept and the priests presented with gifts.

Half-caste clerks sat at table with the whites, and he came to the conclusion that "nowhere in Africa is there so much good-will between Europeans and natives as here.

Such a man was Frederick Douglass, and the example of one who thus rose to eminence by sheer force of character and talents that neither slavery nor caste proscription could crush must ever remain as a shining illustration of the essential superiority of manhood to environment.

No, Marie, we will have our children educated without being subjected to the depressing influences of caste feeling.

And there is the half-caste child, the lisping chee-chee, or Eurasian, grandiloquently so called, much given to sentimental minstrelsy, juvenile polkas, early coquetry, and early beer, hot curries, loud clothes, bad English, and fast pertness.

"But I do stand in awe of the Samáj" (a caste-assembly which pronounces excommunication for breaches of custom).

These royalties have formed a class apart, breeding only among themselves, and attempting to preserve a sort of caste internationalism in the face of an advance in human intelligence, a spread of printing, reading, and writing that makes inevitably for the recrudescence of national and race feeling, and the increasing participation of the people in government.

She had lied to him with innocent, smooth face, as all such fifth-castes lie.

If we discover why he must go away, we shall discover the meaning of that great caste-line which has long been drawn, and ought no longer to be drawn, between trade and letters, trade and the Church, trade and social prestige.

One day a low-caste native, known as a lascar, asked a Brahmin sepoy for a drink of water from his brass pot.

" The way led through dirty, narrow streets, or, rather, let us say, through the spaces between dwellings, to the low-caste quarter.

It was Brutus, my father's half-caste servant.

There was an old mana Mussulmanwho pressed me to buy some truck or other, but not with the villainous camaraderie that generations of low-caste tourists have taught the people, nor yet with the cosmopolitan light-handedness of appeal which the town-bred Egyptian picks up much too quickly; but with a certain desperate zeal, foreign to his whole creed and nature.

The servants, if not in liveryand it is difficult to get them to wear one, the dignity of caste interferingare almost invariably ill-dressed and slovenly in their appearance.

At another spot in the same Bay a trading schooner was seized just afterwards by order of another Hau-Hau fanatic, and all on board killed save two half-caste boys.

Truly the rêlwêy terain is a great caste-breaker!

Then there are the destitute among the weavers, tanners, sweepers and other portions of what constitute the low-caste community.

Here was a big story of unresolved caste conflicts that transcended religious conversion and economic prosperity spread over half a millenium.