Excerpt from A Ken of Kipling: Being a Biographical Sketch of Rudyard Kipling, With an Appreciation and Some Anecdotes When Mr. Kipling and his young wife arrived in Bombay, they were as signed to their government quarters on the Maidan. These quarters were on the sites of the ancient ramparts of the citadel of Bombay, which Sir Bartle Frere had ordered removed, and the Maidan was an open park stretching between the fort and the business por tion of the city. 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.