Copy 1, Volume 1

Rambles and recollections of an Indian official / by Lieutenant-Colonel W.H. Sleeman.

  • William Henry Sleeman
Date:
1844
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rambles and recollections of an Indian official / by Lieutenant-Colonel W.H. Sleeman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be: for in our “struggles through life” in India, we have all, more or less, an eye to the approbation of those circles which our kind sisters represent— who may, therefore, be considered in the exalted light of a valuable species of unpaid magistracy to the government of India! No brother has ever had a kinder or better correspondent than I have had in you, my dear sister; and it was the consciousness of having left many of your valued letters unanswered in the pressure of official duties, that made me first think of devoting a part of my leisure to you in these “ fambles and Recollections,’ while on my way from the banks of the Nerbudda river to the Himmaleh mountains, in search of health, in the end of 1835 and beginning of 13836. To what I wrote during that journey, I have now added a few notes, obser- vations, and conversations with natives, on the sub- jects which my narrative seemed to embrace; and the whole will, I hope, interest and amuse you and the other members of our family; and appear, perchance, not altogether uninteresting or unin- structive to those who are strangers to us both. Of one thing I must beg you to be assured, that I have nowhere indulged in fiction, either in the nar- rative, the recollections, or the conversations. What I relate, on the testimony of others, I believe to be true; and what [ relate upon my own you may rely upon as being so. Had I chosen to write a work of fiction, I might possibly have made it a good deal
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