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PREFACE. ix
of war new societies frequently spring, which add
order and harmony to the civil and moral world.
Destruction is everywhere the precursor of fecundity,
and confusion of order. Thus we trace amid the va-
rious phases of circumstance, grand issues produced by
an Almighty and providential agency, not seen or
contemplated in the embryo, which nevertheless spring
out of the darkest and most unpromising events. The
first conquest of Hindostan by Timur Beg, and its final
conquest by Baber, have led to results perhaps yet to
be consummated, but which appear rapidly advancing
towards their climax. Those conquests presented
new views to the sovereigns of the west; spread before
them a new field of enterprise, and prepared the way
to the subjugation of India by the arms of a Christian
people, by which it is to be hoped that the faith of
Christ will finally prevail throughout those vast regions
of the East, containing upwards of two hundred mil-
lions of our fellow-creatures, principally idolaters.
I am requested by Mr. Daniell to state, that the
views in Boutan, engraved in the present volume,
were made from sketches by the late Samuel Davis,
of war new societies frequently spring, which add
order and harmony to the civil and moral world.
Destruction is everywhere the precursor of fecundity,
and confusion of order. Thus we trace amid the va-
rious phases of circumstance, grand issues produced by
an Almighty and providential agency, not seen or
contemplated in the embryo, which nevertheless spring
out of the darkest and most unpromising events. The
first conquest of Hindostan by Timur Beg, and its final
conquest by Baber, have led to results perhaps yet to
be consummated, but which appear rapidly advancing
towards their climax. Those conquests presented
new views to the sovereigns of the west; spread before
them a new field of enterprise, and prepared the way
to the subjugation of India by the arms of a Christian
people, by which it is to be hoped that the faith of
Christ will finally prevail throughout those vast regions
of the East, containing upwards of two hundred mil-
lions of our fellow-creatures, principally idolaters.
I am requested by Mr. Daniell to state, that the
views in Boutan, engraved in the present volume,
were made from sketches by the late Samuel Davis,