INDIAN RACING REMINISCENCES. 



CHAPTER I. 



ROUND THE CAPE TO INDIA — MEEAN MEER. 



SjFTER a Voyage from 

 Gravesend round the Cape 

 of a hundred and thirty- 

 seven days in the good 

 ship Dilbliur, we arrived 

 at Kurrachee in the month 

 of March, 1868. We had 

 ^ about five hundred men on 

 board belonging to detachments of the Royal Regiment, 

 5 th Fusiliers, 109th Regiment, and of the Horse Artillery, 

 which I commanded. Our navigation was regulated by 

 the old maxim of slow but sure, for our skipper's wife, 

 who was on board, did not approve of carrying on sail to 

 any great extent, and her worthy and obliging husband 

 dutifully obeyed her orders on all occasions. Our 



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