"The sandalwood traders," wrote Paton, "are as a class the most godless of men....

Leaving for a moment the direct path, which climbs to the crest of the hill past the Buddhist caves and cisterns, we walk along a dainty terrace lined with champak and sandalwood trees and passing under a carved stone gateway halt before the shrine dedicated to Shivaji's family goddess.

The altars were brilliant with memorial tablets, the green, red, and gold flower vases, and sandalwood taper-holders, so familiar to me, and all about were the written prayers of devotees, soliciting the favor of Heaven, asking success in business, or the averting of illness.

The kings, with their officers and people, were all very sad and distressed, supposing that the sandalwood image had been burned; but lo!

The sandalwood trade in these islands gives employment to about six small vessels, belonging to Sydney.