INTRODUCTION. Vll 



atid Incidents hereafter described are taken from my 

 diary of travels in 1870-71, they hare been consider- 

 ably supplemented by information and impressions 

 received during a second jouimey made betiveen 1876- 

 7S; this has been more especially the case ivith regard 

 to Southern India. Without this ex'jjlanation, it 

 might appear that 1 1 tad been guilty of anachron- 

 is7n.s in divers places. With the exceptiira of two 

 or three fac-sitniles of photographs, the illustra- 

 tions are from my oimi drawings ; originally it 

 was my intention to add a number of views of 

 Eastern landscape and religious monuments, which 

 I was obliged, to ahandon on account of the expense^ 

 which would have materially enhanced the price of 

 this volume. On the other hand, the scenery of the 

 East has of late years been so frec£iiently brought 

 before the public in the stiape of admirable ivater- 

 coloiir sketcJies {one of the most compilete collections 

 being that exhihited by Miss Marianne North, a few 

 years ago in Conduit Street), that I feel less reluc- 

 tant in the omission on the present occasion. 



A. D. F. 



St. Hubert's, Beckenham, Kent 



