Author: Edmund Charles Cox Bart

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-13

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781330289495

Excerpt from My Thirty Years in India When I look back on it I think that my decision to seek my fortune in India was one of the most crack-brained things that I have ever heard of. I knew nothing about India, except that my father had been born there, and he used to tell us children about his early days at Simla and Delhi. I had been in the sixth form, and head of my house, at Marlborough, and in the May term of 1876 was just completing my first year at Trinity College, Cambridge. One evening I got a letter from home saying that my younger brother was going out to India almost immediately as a tea-planter. I hadn't the ghost of a notion what a tea-planter was. I did not even know that tea was grown in India. My head was full of Latin verses and Greek accents, and such-like useful subjects, and I suppose that I knew something about them. Even now, after thirty-two years of India, I can recall with pleasure passages from Homer, Virgil, and Horace. 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.