of fear, afterwards of horror:  Hindus and Hindis (Moslems) considered the strangers a set of cow-eaters and fire-drinkers, tetrae beluae ac molossis suis ferociores, who would fight like Iblis, cheat their own fathers, and exchange with the same readiness a broadside of shots and thrusts of boarding-pikes, or a bale of goods and a bag of rupees.”  (Rev. Mr. Anderson-The English in Western India.) We have risen in a degree above such a low standard of estimation; still, incredible as it may appear to the Frank himself, it is no less true, that the Frank everywhere in the East is considered a contemptible being, and dangerous withal.  As regards Indian opinion concerning our government, my belief is, that in and immediately about the three presidencies, where the people owe everything to and hold everything by our rule, it is most popular.  At the same time I am convinced that in other places the people would most willingly hail any change.  And how can we hope it to be otherwise,-we, a nation of strangers, aliens to the country’s customs and creed, who, even while resident in India, act the part which absentees do in other lands?  Where, in the history of the world, do we read that such foreign dominion ever made itself loved? [FN#12] This was written three years before the Indian Mutiny.  I also sent into the Court of Directors a much stronger report-for which I duly suffered. [FN#13] In the Arabic “Muruwwat,” generosity, the noble part of human nature, the qualities which make a man. [FN#14] “For medicine,” means for an especial purpose, an urgent occasion. [FN#15] “Allah Karim!” said to a beggar when you do not intend to be bountiful. [FN#16] Read an account of Tipu Sahib’s treatment of his French employes.  If Rangit Singh behaved better to his European officers, it was only on account of his paramount fear and hatred of the British.  The Panjabi story of the old lion’s death is amusing enough, contrasted with that Anglomania of which so much has been said and written.  When the Sikh king, they declare, heard of our success in Afghanistan-he had allowed us a passage through his dominions, as ingress into a deadly trap-his spirits (metaphorically and literally) failed him; he had not the heart to drink, he sickened and he died. [FN#17] The Rajputs, for instance, “whose land has ever been the focus of Indian chivalry, and the home of Indian heroes.” [FN#18] As my support against the possible, or rather the probable, imputation of “extreme opinions,” I hold up the honoured name of the late Sir Henry Elliot (Preface to the Biographical Index to the Historians of Mohammedan India).  “These idle vapourers (bombastic Babus, and other such political ranters), should learn that the sacred spark of patriotism is exotic here, and can never fall on a mine that can explode; for history will show them that certain peculiarities of physical, as well as moral organisation, neither to be strengthened by diet nor improved by education, have hitherto prevented their ever attempting a national independence; which will continue to exist to them but as a name, and as an offscouring of college declamations.”