Excerpt from A History of the Mahrattas, Vol. 1 of 3 Next' to Mr. Elphinstone, to whom I am indebted, not only for the situation which procured me most of these advantages, but for an encouragement without which I might never have ventured to prosecute this work, I am chiefly obliged to my friends, Captain Henry Adams, Revenue Surveyor to the Raja of Satara, and Mr. William Richard Morris, of the Bombay Civil Service, then acting as my first assistant. These gentlemen translated many hundreds of deeds and letters, numerous treaties, several voluminous histories and, for years together, were ever ready, at all hours after the transaction of public business, to give up their time in furtherance of my object. 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.