India and Its Mutiny

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Excerpt from India and Its Mutiny: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Halifax Young Men's Christian Association, on Tuesday Evening, March 16, 1858I ndia was always a great name. To the ancient world, it stood for a land of mystery and inaccessible seclusion, but still to their superstitious minds it was a name of enchants ment, rich in the reputation of majesty, opulence, wisdom, and power. From the earliest times it inspired the imagination with dreams of beauty, and excited the cupidity of strangers with its unfabled wealth. In an age more recent, it was the glorious haven of the mariner's hepe, always far distant and so long unfound. Under that aspect it became the unconscious cause of a most magnificent discovery, for it induced those daring efforts to eitplore the trackless deep, which at once brought two worlds together, and gave to the art of Navigation its first and greatest triumphs. For it was the shores of India that drew out of their harbors the original pilots of the ocean, - it was the shores of India that allured the tiny ¿eet of Columbus across the unmeasured Wastes of the Atlantic, and enticed the adventurous bark of Vasco de Gama round the Cape of Good Hepe, and it was the scientific faith of the Genoese captain in the Westward road to India that first led the European to this vast continent, and the isles of America were the gems that first rose from the ocean to give to that.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.