PREFACE, 
IX 
of war new societies frequently spring, which add 
order and harmony to the civil and moral world. 
Destruction is everywhere the precursor of fecundity, 
and confusion of order. Thus we trace amid the va- 
rious phases of circumstance, grand issues produced by 
an Almighty and providential agency, not seen or 
contemplated in the embryo, which nevertheless spring 
out of the darkest and most unpromising events. The 
first conquest of Hindostan by Timur Beg, and its final 
conquest by Baber, have led to results perhaps yet to 
be consummated, but which appear rapidly advancing 
towards their climax. Those conquests presented 
new views to the sovereigns of the west ; spread before 
them a new field of enterprise, and prepared the way 
to the subjugation of India by the arms of a Christian 
people, by which it is to be hoped that the faith of 
Christ will finally prevail throughout those vast regions 
of the East, containing upwards of two hundred mil- 
lions of our fellow-creatures, principally idolaters. 
I am requested by Mr. Daniell to state, that the 
views in Boutan, engraved in the present volume, 
were made from sketches by the late Samuel Davis, 
