INTRODUCTION. 



An author is only justified in ofEering 

 to tlie public a record of trivial and 

 unimportant matters when he can 

 satisfy curiosity by telling of things 

 and people not generally known, and 

 scenes remote from the highways of 

 the world. 



I hope that my chapters of Indian 

 experiences may be held to have this 

 justification, and I would fain see de- 

 scriptions, from the pens of those who 

 know them well, of the many other little- 



