1 6 INTRODUCTION. 



however, I was sent in charge of an officer friend to 

 Bombay, where I was comfortably put up in a 

 Medico's house, and had the advantage of his 

 professional skill. In due course I came round, and, 

 as it was considered unadvisable to work in the 

 same districts again, I was transferred to the Poona 

 Survey, which necessitated my passing in the 

 Murathi language. A though I used to have 

 periodical attacks of fever every year, I was unable 

 to ofet the Medical Authorities to send me to Eno- 

 land on sick leave till the beginning of 187 1. I 

 stayed at home two years, had a good time shooting 

 and fishine, and returned to India two stone heavier. 

 I remained in the Poona Survey for a year after 

 arrival, then went back to military duty, joining the 

 Marine Battalion or 21st Bombay N.I. During my 

 stay with this regiment nothing very eventful 

 occurred outside the usual routine of an officer's daily 

 life in an Indian regiment — that is parades in the 

 early morning in the cold weather months, annual 

 course of musketry on the ranges. Courts- Martial, 

 Committees of all sorts, etc., etc. 



Perhaps the most notable event was the presenta- 

 tion of New Colours to the regiment by his Royal 

 Highness the Prince of Wales, our present King, in 

 1875 ; also, it might interest some to know that, 

 I with two friends, one being a lieutenant, the other 

 a civilian, attempted to get to the source of the 

 Ganges in the year 1876. It meant ascending to 

 23,000 feet where there is an ice cave whence the 

 water comes. We started from the hill station of 



