THE HOUSE OF SCINDEA: A SKETCH. BY JOHN HOPE, LATE SUPERINTENDING SURGEON OF SCINDEA'S CONTINGENT, AND CALIFORNIA LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN. A... I. I.. THE UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA HOUSE OF SCINDEA. We have no right to seize Scinde, yet we shall do so and a very 【EITHER the similarity of the names Scinde and NEI Scindea, nor the quotation which heads this page, will, we trust, mislead those of our readers who are not very well acquainted with the localities of India. We are not going to follow the beaten path that directs our way to Hydrabad on the Indus. We proceed to Gwalior in Central India, intending to relate occurrences which took place there; and should our narrative prove little gratifying, on the whole, to the pride and sense of honour of Englishmen, it will at least have the merit of being substantially true; and it may possibly have this further claim on the sympathy of our readers, that, like comedies on the stage, it ends by the last of its heroes, Gyajea Scindea, turning out a very fine B 437021 |