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36 CH. xir.
good nature and good humour, his real benevolence, unmixed
with the slightest cant of misanthropy, his activity and his truth-
fulness of mind, easily pleased with anything, and delighted
with those things that in general have no effect but on a
youthful imagination. The effect of these last qualities is
heightened by their contrast with his stern countenance and
searching eye.
' Cu-uqo, Juf?/ 11.—I arrived at Poona on
the 5th, and left it on the 26th. I was at Phoolsheher in
the interim, saw Appa Sahib, and had a day's hog-hunting
with Davies. I was two days at Seroor, and seven or eight
at Ahmednuggur. I am now half way between that place and
Toka, on my way to Candeish. I have at this moment less
labour than usual, and am reading " Lalla Rookh," pleased with
the poem itself, and flattered by its allusions to my travels.
My views and intentions have undergone a great change. My
idea before I went to Sattara was that I should establish a
government in this country before I left it, and that this
would take a year or eighteen months. General Munro said
I ought on no account to go in less than two or three years;
and I had made up my mind to the first of these periods, when
some considerations, especially the impatience of the Bombay
Government to get possession, and the certainty that they
would disregard any plans I established, made me look on the
introduction of them as equally wearisome and vain. I then
determined to wind up if I could in six months, go home over-
land, get as a reward for my services here, and compensation
for my losses in the Cabul mission, as much as I could save
in an equal period out here, and return in Council or to a
Government. It is evident that I should lose time, and gain
neither money nor reputation by protracting my stay here;
and of this I was always aware ; though a sense of duty, and
reluctance to leave an unfinished undertaking, led me to think
of staying. Having once given way to these ideas, and to the
hope of soon seeing England, I am quite depressed by some
letters of Munro's and Malcolm's, which make me fear I may
yet be detained ; but still it is quite uncertain.'
good nature and good humour, his real benevolence, unmixed
with the slightest cant of misanthropy, his activity and his truth-
fulness of mind, easily pleased with anything, and delighted
with those things that in general have no effect but on a
youthful imagination. The effect of these last qualities is
heightened by their contrast with his stern countenance and
searching eye.
' Cu-uqo, Juf?/ 11.—I arrived at Poona on
the 5th, and left it on the 26th. I was at Phoolsheher in
the interim, saw Appa Sahib, and had a day's hog-hunting
with Davies. I was two days at Seroor, and seven or eight
at Ahmednuggur. I am now half way between that place and
Toka, on my way to Candeish. I have at this moment less
labour than usual, and am reading " Lalla Rookh," pleased with
the poem itself, and flattered by its allusions to my travels.
My views and intentions have undergone a great change. My
idea before I went to Sattara was that I should establish a
government in this country before I left it, and that this
would take a year or eighteen months. General Munro said
I ought on no account to go in less than two or three years;
and I had made up my mind to the first of these periods, when
some considerations, especially the impatience of the Bombay
Government to get possession, and the certainty that they
would disregard any plans I established, made me look on the
introduction of them as equally wearisome and vain. I then
determined to wind up if I could in six months, go home over-
land, get as a reward for my services here, and compensation
for my losses in the Cabul mission, as much as I could save
in an equal period out here, and return in Council or to a
Government. It is evident that I should lose time, and gain
neither money nor reputation by protracting my stay here;
and of this I was always aware ; though a sense of duty, and
reluctance to leave an unfinished undertaking, led me to think
of staying. Having once given way to these ideas, and to the
hope of soon seeing England, I am quite depressed by some
letters of Munro's and Malcolm's, which make me fear I may
yet be detained ; but still it is quite uncertain.'