Excerpt from A Free Solitude Benjamin wade turned his pony from the narrow jungle track on to the dusty, unmetalled road that led to his estate. Behind him, in the Indian morning sunshine, lay stretches of coarse grass and tangled bushes, intersected with the stony beds of shallow watercourses; then miles of luxuriant, undulating jungle and dense forest that rose gently to the base of the mighty Himalayas, and washed in dark, irregular waves high up the rugged spurs of the lower mountain chain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.