Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 9 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe Very soon after Lord Hastings had, by his advance to the Sindh, enforced the treaty of concert upon Sindia, his army was overtaken by a pestilence as violent and destructive as any recorded in the pages of history. The source Of this epidemic is matter of mere conjecture, although its progress was distinctly traced. It first ap peared in the Gangetic Delta, about the commencement of thy. 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.