Excerpt from Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, From Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, Vol. 2 of 3: With Notes Upon Ceylon, an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India This was the first night I ever passed under canvas, and, independent of its novelty, I found the comforts of my dwelling greatly exceed my expectation. The breeze blew in very fresh and pleasantly through the tent door, the ground, cc vered with short withered grass, was perfectly dry. 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.