VI PREFACE.
the power of* discriminating with certainty between the
various tribes and classes of which the native population
of India is composed.
Leaving it, therefore, to those persons, who have en-
joyed better opportunities for acquiring literary qualifica-
tions, than have been afforded by a life of active exertion,
to express their judgment as to the style and manner in
which his descriptions are conveyed, the writer yet feels,
that he may justly bespeak the credence of his readers for
the faithful detail of circumstances, such as it has not
fallen to the lot of many Europeans to witness. It will
gratify him extremely to learn, that his narrative is
received by the British public with some portion of
the interest which was powerfully created within his
own mind, while witnessing the actual occurrences which
he has thus attempted to describe.
Madras, May, 1831.
the power of* discriminating with certainty between the
various tribes and classes of which the native population
of India is composed.
Leaving it, therefore, to those persons, who have en-
joyed better opportunities for acquiring literary qualifica-
tions, than have been afforded by a life of active exertion,
to express their judgment as to the style and manner in
which his descriptions are conveyed, the writer yet feels,
that he may justly bespeak the credence of his readers for
the faithful detail of circumstances, such as it has not
fallen to the lot of many Europeans to witness. It will
gratify him extremely to learn, that his narrative is
received by the British public with some portion of
the interest which was powerfully created within his
own mind, while witnessing the actual occurrences which
he has thus attempted to describe.
Madras, May, 1831.