Excerpt from Annesley of Surat and His Times: The True Story of the Mythical Wesley Fortune In this book, as in the earlier production, I have written the story from the standpoint of person ality, endeavouring rather to bring out the play of individual efforts than to trace the course of general movements. I have done this because it has long appeared to me that if you would interest people, and especially young people, in history, it is essential that you should put before them vivid pictures of human interest which will arouse their curiosity and stimulate their imagination, and lead them by natural stages to a study of the deeper influences which have been at work in the moulding of events. So far as this work is concerned I have found the greater inducement to adopt this method of treating the subject because the personal factor throughout was remarkably predominant. Across the stage of British endeavour in Western India stalked a succession of characters who were not merely of the play, but for the time being were the play. They were in many ways a shady company in whom the villains outnumbered the heroes, but it was their province to make history, and extremely interesting history, too, as the reader who honours me by perusing these pages will find. 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.