Contents Preface. Chapter 1: A Faithful Nurse. Chapter 2: A Strange Bringing Up. Chapter 3: A Change In Affairs. Chapter 4: A British Resident. Chapter 5: Down To Bombay. Chapter 6: In The Company's Service. Chapter 7: An Act Of Treachery. Chapter 8: Nana's Release. Chapter 9: A Popular Tumult. Chapter 10: A Mission By Sea. Chapter 11: A Prisoner. Chapter 12: The Defence Of Johore. Chapter 13: The Break Up Of The Monsoon. Chapter 14: The Great Andaman. Chapter 15: Assaye. Chapter 16: A Disastrous Retreat. Chapter 17: An Escape. Chapter 18: An Awkward Position. Chapter 19: Bhurtpoor. Chapter 20: Home.Chapter 1: A Faithful Nurse.On a swell of ground, in the wild country extending from Bombay tothe foot of the Ghauts, stood a small camp. In the centre was alarge pavilion; the residence, for the time, of Major Lindsay, anofficer whose charge was to keep the peace in the district. It wasno easy matter. The inhabitants, wild and lawless, lived in smallvillages scattered about the rough country, for the most partcovered with forest, and subject to depredations by the robberbands who had their strongholds among the hills. Major Lindsay hadwith him a party of twenty troopers, not for defence--there waslittle fear of attack by the natives of the Concan--but to add tohis authority, to aid in the collection of the small tax paid byeach community, and to deter the mountain robbers from descendingon to the plain. He generally spent the cool season in going hisrounds while, during the hot weather, his headquarters were atBombay.