Excerpt from Haunts and Hobbies of an Indian Official
During the latter period of my residence in India I kept a diary. The diary was chiefly devoted to observations on the birds, insects, and animals whose acquaintance I made in my garden, or which I beheld on the bed of the river beyond. But it also contained memoranda on the weather and the changes of the seasons, notes of interviews with native visitors, and of any interesting information I happened to acquire. When I finally left India I brought the diary with me, together with a variety of Persian manuscripts and other Eastern books and papers. For many years it remained unnoticed, half forgotten; then one day the fancy took me to open and peruse it.
I found it interesting, sufficiently so to warrant the hope that if expanded and arranged in the form of a narrative it might prove a volume of entertaining reading. After much delay and many interruptions I have carried this idea into execution.
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