3i8 THE FORESTS OF UPPER INDIA 



advantage, to train the eye and mind to quick sympathy 

 and action. The love of the chase and of horses, acquired 

 in the saddle, is certainly to both youth and maiden an 

 exhilarating, health-giving passion, and to those advanced 

 in years it is an abiding source of interest and a rejuven- 

 ating influence. To those who would choose a career of 

 usefulness, where earnest work can be relieved by active 

 and wholesome recreation, I can recommend no service 

 more suitable than the Indian Forest Service, one full of 

 interest and of great promise for the benefit of mankind 

 in future generations, I must not conclude these recol- 

 lections without doing honour to the name of one to 

 whose scientific and untiring energy the Government of 

 India is indebted for the establishment and organization 

 of its Forest Departments on the best principles ; I allude 

 to Inspector-General Dr. (now Sir Dietrich) Brandis, 

 under whom I had the pleasure of serving. If from un- 

 avoidable circumstances connected with ill-health I was 

 obliged to terminate my connection with the Department 

 sooner than I otherwise should have done, just as I was 

 getting into the swing of executive forest work, I can only 

 say that the loss was my own, and that such things are 

 unavoidable. But I can look back with sincere pleasure 

 on the ten years of my service, and can believe that I shall 

 never spend happier years than those which I had the 

 good fortune to spend in the forests of India. 



