Excerpt from A Journey Over Land to India: Partly by a Route Never Gone Before by Any European The events related in the following pages, naturally became a frequent fubjeet of converfation with my children and my friends. They felt fo much fatisfaetion at the accounts which I gave them, that they repeatedly urged me to commit the Whole to paper; and their afi'ectionate partiality induced them to fuppofe, at the narrative would be, not only agree a le to them, but interefiing to the public. In complying with their folicitations, I am far from being confident that the fuccefs of my efforts will jufiify their hopes: I trufl', however, that too much will not be expected, in regard to literary compofition, from a perfon whole life has been principally devoted to the duties of a foldier and the fervice of his country - and that a fcrupulous adherence to truth will compenfate for many blemifhes in flyle and arrangement. 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.