The Story of My Life

The magnificent Botanic Garden came well in view and at the end of the vista the square-rigged talmasted ocean-going ships were seen like those I remembered in the Pool of the Thames. [...] As the day advanced my position enabled me t view the builhing-place as it was called for the cremation of the Hindu dead in the sanctity of the a water's edge. [...] On the other hand it was the scene of the most graceful passages in the Hindu mythology and the ideal place where the young god Krishna the Hindu Apollo had danced among the cowherd youths and maidens. [...] In the Muttra district as in the rest of the country a hercIlean operation had taken place named the Settlement including the determination of the land revenue for thirty years and the registration of all landed tenures. [...] In the Registration work for me the cardinal affair I was virtually subordinate to the Commissioner of the district of Allahabad and of the.neighbouring districts Mr.