Excerpt from The Young Cadet; Or Henry Delamere's Voyage to India: With His Travels in Hindostan, and His Account of the Burmese War and the Wonders of Elora Mr. Delamere did not mention this conversation to his son Henry, lest it Should lead him to form hopes Of a Wild and desultory nature, but when their kind visitor, Mr. Wingrove, had returned to London, he took more than common pains to impress on the mind of the boy, a necessity for attending to his stu dies, Of gaining especially a knowledge Of geogre phy beyond what he possessed, improvement in me dern languages, and the practice Of mathematics so far as he was able. 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.