VI PREFACE. 



have recounted the adventure on the written statements of 

 friends whose words may be implicitly relied on; but to 

 the experienced in such matters nothing in these pages will 

 appear strange or extraordinary. 



The above is my excuse for writing this book ; and now, 

 having given " mine enemy " (if I have one) a fair opening, 

 let him fire away. 



E. B. B. 



DURUKA, SANTHAL PERGUNNAHS, 

 1886. 



