The Land Of The Veda - Being Personal Reminiscences Of India - Its People, Castes, Thugs, And Fakirs - Its Religions, Mythology, Principal Monuments, Palaces, And Mausoleums - Together With The Incidents Of The Great Sepoy Rebellion, And Its Results To Christianity And Civilization - 1873 - PREFACE - The writer of this book has aimed to act toward the reader in THE the relation of a guide, though he were going over the ground again, and giving the benefit of hs experience, in printing out the subjccts of interest with which years and study have familiarized his own mind, The thread of the narrative runs through the work, and, so far as the subject permitted, its continuity has been preserved. In a theme like that of India, and after the reading and notetaking of fifteen years, it is a difficult task for an author to trace every entry to its source, or adequately to discriminate between what is original and what is borrowed. Every reasonable effort, however, has been madc to give...

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