AN ENGLISHMAN'S LIFE IN INDIA : OR, Travel and Adventure in the East. BY HENRY MOSES, M.D. "Let it be remembered that India is the school which has produced BATH: BINNS AND GOODWIN. LONDON: LONGMAN; SIMPKIN; HAMILTON; WHITTAKER; EDINBURGH: OLIVER AND BOYD. DUBLIN: J. M'GLASHAN. MDCCCLIII. TO The Honourable Mrs. Rowley, THIS VOLUME IS BY PERMISSION INSCRIBED, WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF RESPECT AND ESTEEM. DS 412 PREFACE. CAPTAIN BASIL HALL has somewhere observed in his Travels and Voyages, that "of all places in the noble range of countries so happily called the eastern world, from the pitch of the Cape to the Islands of Japan, from Bengal to Batavia, nearly every hole and corner of which I have visited in the course of my peregrinations, there are few which can compare with Bombay. If, indeed, I were consulted by one who wished as expeditiously and economically as possible to see all that was essentially characteristic of the oriental world, I would say, without hesitation, 'Take a run to Bombay, remain there a week or two, and having also visited the scenes in the neigh M312402 |