TEN YEARS IN INDIA, AND THREE YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA, IN THE CAPE CORPS LEVIES.

TEN YEARS IN INDIA,

IN THE

16TH QUEEN'S LANCERS.

AND

THREE YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA,

IN THE CAPE CORPS LEVIES.

FIRST AFGHAN CAMPAIGN.

THE MAHARATTA WAR.

THE SHEIK WAR.

INCLUDING BATTLES OF

GHUZNEE, CABUL,

MAHARAJPOOR, BUDDEWAL,

ALIWAL, SOBRAON,

AND KAFFIR WAR OF 1850-51.

REPLETE WITH ANECDOTES—INCIDENTS INSEPARABLE FROM MILITARY LIFE—MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE SEVERAL INDIAN RACES, MAHOMEDANS, HINDOOS AND KAFFIR TRIBES—TALES OF ELEPHANT HUNTING, ETC., ETC.

BY

W. J. D. GOULD,

Formerly Sergt. 16th Queen's Lancers, "The Terror of India," afterwards Lieut. Cape European Levies.

Toronto:

HUNTER, ROSE & COMPANY, WELLINGTON ST.

MDCCCLXXX.

Entered according to the Act of the Parliament in Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty, by W. J. D. Gould, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.

TO

HIS EXCELLENCY,

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

John Douglas Sutherland Campbell,

K.T., K.C.M.G.

MARQUIS OF LORNE,

GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA,

&c., &c., &c.

This Work is Dedicated

BY THE AUTHOR, WHO, AS HE HAS PASSED THE MEREDIAN, AND IS NOW APPROACHING THE LIMIT OF HIS EARTHLY EXISTENCE, LOOKS BACK WITH FEELINGS OF PRIDE, ON THE HUMBLE PART HE TOOK, AS ONE OF THE OLD

16th QUEEN'S LANCERS,

IN ALL THE MEMORABLE ENGAGEMENTS IN WHICH THEY PARTICIPATED

IN INDIA,

AND

NOT THE LEAST OF ALL DOES HE FEEL THE HONOUR CONFERRED IN THUS GRANTING LEAVE TO ISSUE THE WORK UNDER SUCH

DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE.

Toronto, Ontario, 1880.