PKEFACE. 



Vll 



life. As I hope my readers will accompany me 

 through the whole of my journey, I shall have the 

 pleasure of taking them to India and the Himalayas, 

 and showing them the Government Tea plantations, 

 from which much is expected, and which are likely 

 to prove of great advantage, not only to India but 

 also to England and her wide-spreading colonies. 



Having thus given an idea of what may be ex- 

 pected in the following pages, I have only to express 

 a hope that the work may be received by the public 

 in the same kind spirit, and with the same in- 

 dulgence and favour, that were shown to my former 

 ' Wanderings.' 



Brompton, April, 1852. 



