officer.  I scarcely knew the girl, and don’t know her name now, but I took her measure, made her excited by manipulation and kissing, and then got her consent.  I did not harm her, even if I had been the first, for orgasm occurred before I had penetrated beyond the lips.  X surprised me by telling me that he had had connection with three other officers in my regiment, as well as with several others in the same station.  He would not tell me their names, but I guessed easily enough.  He used to drink heavily, and once I got into his bed when he was in a drunken stupor and he was quite unaware that I was there for some time.  I myself was drinking too much at this time, and was frequently drunk before dinner.  In the hot weather that followed I had one orgy in Bombay which lasted three nights.  I started on a Greek and a Pole and finished up with a Japanese, two brother-officers accompanying me.  Afterward I was much alone during the day in my bungalow, and used to become possessed by intense desire.  I masturbated occasionally, but by this time took but little pleasure in it, always craving for the moist human vagina.  I had often heard, and myself quoted, the Pathan proverb ’Women for breeding; boys for pleasure; melons for delight,’ and one day when seeking for some novelty with which to masturbate, and my eye being caught by a melon put ready for me to eat, it flashed across me to try whether the proverb was in any way true.  I found it most satisfactory, and practised it several times after that, the pepita (papaye or pawpaw) being the nearest approach to the human vagina.  The opportune arrival of a fairly good-looking punkah woman, however, put an end to this form of enjoyment by providing me with what I wanted.  Soon afterward I went home again, taking the Japanese at Bombay on my way.

“I had kept up a correspondence with No. 1 all this time, but we had made a compact that whatever each did until we met again was not to count, and I knew that she had had at least one liaison since our parting, and was in entire ignorance of the state of her feelings toward me.  Therefore, while trying to arrange a meeting with her, I took the first thing that chance threw in my way, thinking a bird in the hand better than the off chance of a better one in the bush.  This was No. 4, with whom I spent three days at the seaside after having first had coitus with her in my own home while she was in the monthly state.  Immediately on parting from her I came home to receive No. 1.  The first time we were alone she kissed me, and this was followed by mutual confessions and coitus, though at first she said my affair was too recent.  I agreed not to have connection again with No. 4, and kept to this until when staying in the same house again with her I was tempted beyond my powers; and I may add that she gave me no assistance in keeping this promise, of which she was fully cognizant.  I at once wrote and confessed to No. 1, and she very naturally