Excerpt from Errant a Life-Story of Latter-Day Chivalry, Vol. 1 of 3 Of course, men who never crossed the Mahratta ditch, and fancy that all India is Bengal, and all Bengal is Calcutta, are more ignorant than if they had picked up their knowledge from a score of old Indians at Cheltenham. But that's not to the point. Certainly not, Major. I Spoke of moral, not geo graphical distance. We live among the Natives, jostle them, talk to them, depend on them for every breath we draw. But the whole world of Native thought, life, character is hidden from us and time, spent as most of us spend it, don't enlighten us. Six months lived with Natives gives a man at least as good a right to guess what they are thinking as sixteen years lived alongside of them; and the guess - is a guess, after all. 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.