28 HOW I KILLED THE TIGER. 



British force first came in contact with the 

 natives of India. Sivaji attacked and plundered 

 Surat. On this occasion Sir George Oxenden 

 won the admiration of Aurungzeb by an 

 extraordinary display of courage. Since then 

 wars have been almost incessant, and many a 

 name has become illustrious. 



Since the conquest of the Punjab by Lord 

 Dalhousie in 1849, and of Pegu in 1852, the 

 boundaries of the British Empire in India, 

 excluding Aden and the Straits Settlements, have 

 been the Suliman range, the Karakorum, the 

 water-shed of the Himalaya, Nepaul and Bhootan 

 on the north ; the sea on the west and south ; 

 and a line marked by no natural features, 

 stretching from the Yoma range irregularly in a 

 south-east direction through Burmah to the tenth 

 parallel of latitude. Roughly, British India may 

 be said to be included within Lat. 8 and 37 N. ; 

 and Long. 6644' an d 993o' E., involving 

 eleven thousand two hundred and sixty miles by 

 external boundary. From Tenasserim by the 

 Himalaya to Cape Monze in Sindh, the "land" 

 frontier is four thousand six hundred and eighty 

 miles, while the " coast " line from the Straits 

 Settlements to Kurrachee is six thousand five 

 hundred and eighty. The length of India 

 from the Indus to Cape Comorin, on the meridian 



