The author’s uneasiness concerning the attitude of Nepal was justified.  During the Afghan troubles of 1838-43 the Nepalese Government was in constant communication with the enemies of the Indian Government.  The late Maharaja Sir Jang Bahadur obtained power in 1846, and, after his visit to England in 1850, decided to abide by the English alliance.  He did valuable service in 1857 and 1858, and the two governments have ever since maintained an unbroken, though reserved, friendship.  The Gorkha regiments in the English service are recruited in Nepal.

13.  Aasaye (Assye, Asai) is in the Nizam’s dominions.  Here, on the 23rd of September, 1803, Sir Arthur Wellesley, afterwards Duke of Wellington, with less than 5,000 men, defeated the Maratha host of at least 32,000 men, including more than 10,000 under European leaders.  Ajanta, or Ajanta Ghat, is in the same region. (Owen, Sel. from Wellington Despatches (1880), pp. 301-9.)

14.  His tombstone bears a Portuguese inscription:  ‘Aqui iaz Walter Reinhard, morreo aos 4 de Mayo no anno de 1778.’ (N.W.P.  Gazetteer, vol. ii, p. 96.)

15.  According to this statement she must have been born in or about 1741, not in 1753, as stated by Atkinson.  If the earlier date were correct, she would have been ninety-five when she died in 1836.  Higginbotham, referring to Bacon’s work, says she died at the age of eighty-nine, which places her birth in 1747.  According to Beale, she was aged eighty-eight lunar years when she died, on the 27th January, 1836, equivalent to about eighty-five solar years.  This computation places her birth in A.D. 1751, which may be taken as the correct date.  The date of her baptism is correctly stated in the text.

16.  She added the name Nobilis, when she married Le Vaisseau. (N.W.P.  Gazetteer, vol. ii, p. 106, note.)

17.  The author spells the German’s name Pauly; I have followed Atkinson’s spelling.  The man was assassinated in 1783.

18.  This circumstance indicates that the execution of the slave girls took place in 1782. (See N.W.P.  Gazetteer, vol. ii, p. 91.)

19.  The darker aide of the Begam’s character is shown by the story of the slave girl’s murder.  By some it is said that the girl’s crime consisted in her having attracted the favourable notice of one of the Begam’s husbands.  Whatever may have been the offence, her barbarous mistress visited it by causing the girl to be buried alive.  The time chosen for the execution was the evening, the place the tent of the Begam; who caused her bed to be arranged immediately over the grave, and occupied it until the morning, to prevent any attempt to rescue the miserable girl beneath.  By acts like this the Begam inspired such terror that she was never afterwards troubled with domestic dissensions.’ (N.W.P.  Gazetteer, 1st ed., vol. ii, p. 110.) It will be observed that this version mentions only one girl.  According to Higginbotham (Men whom India has Known,