REMINISCENCES

OF AN

INDIAN OFFICIAL

BY

GENERAL SIR ORFEUR CAVENAGH

K.C.S.I.

LONDON:

W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE,

PREFACE.

As the history of even the most uneventful life, when faithfully recorded, must always contain some matter deserving notice, I venture, with all humility, to express a hope that in the following plain unvarnished sketch of the career of an Indian Officer from Cadet to Governor, there may be found some scenes described, some incidents related, which may be deemed of sufficient interest to induce its readers to pardon my presumption in presenting it to the Public.

TO MY DEAR WIFE

This Book is Dedicated,

IN

GRATEFUL RECOLLECTION OF THE DEVOTED CARE TO WHICH,

AIDED BY THE PROFESSIONAL SKILL AND

UNREMITTING ATTENTION OF A MUCH LAMENTED COMRADE,

I OWE MY RESTORATION TO HEALTH,

AFTER HAVING BEEN TWICE DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED BY ROUND SHOT.

ORFEUR CAVENAGH.

LONG DITTON, 22 July, 1882.