NOTES OF AN INDIAN JOURNEY. JO WIND VINNOSTVO BY MOUNTSTUART E. GRANT DUFF, Member for the Elgin District of Burghs, and late Under-Secretary of State for India. The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.] PREFACE. THE following pages were written chiefly in Steamships and Railway Carriages, or late at night, after the occupations of the day were over, and were sent home week by week to my usual travelling companions-none of whom, as it chanced, were able to accompany me on my Indian Journey. They were printed in the Contemporary Review, as they are reprinted now, with hardly any alteration, because I think that most persons, whom I wish to address, will care more for notes, however rough and fragmentary, which bear the mark of having been written in immediate contact with the things to which they relate, than for a far more elaborate book composed at home, with all the advantages of libraries and leisure. In the words of a great master of a kind of writing which I should like 459319 |