Excerpt from India, the Horror-Stricken Empire: Containing a Full Account of the Famine, Plague, and Earthquake of 1896-7, Including a Complete Narration of the Relief Work Through the Home and Foreign Relief Commission The chapters in the part treating on the famine have been arranged as nearly as possible to accord with the author's itinerary as given in the notes and letters placed into my hands. Had it been my aim to pander to the lovers of the sensational I might have given shocking de tails by the score. Feeling, however, that the object of the author was to teach and to enlist intelligent, active, lasting sympathy for God's poor of India, I forbore to describe the most harrowing scenes. Humbly praying that the book may serve the noble purpose for which the author and publishers are placing it before an enlightened public I leave the reader to a perusal of the work. 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.