22 INTRODUCTION. 



my Lieutenancy in 1863, Captaincy in 1871, Majority 

 in 1882, and was gazetted out Lieutenant-Colonel 

 on my retirement. That it was never my fortune to 

 see active service was due entirely to the fact that 

 the regiment I was with at the time did not happen 

 to be one of those under orders for the front. How- 

 ever, I may say that, having had the experience of 

 facing a wounded tiger, I trust that, had I been 

 called upon to face the bullets of any enemy to my 

 own dear country, I should have acquitted myself 

 like a soldier and an Englishman. 



