Excerpt from Recollections of India: Or Reminiscences of a Six Years' Residence in Orissa It is thought that this little volume will t be entirely devoid of either interest or profit. Its author relinquished the endearments of home and country to be a Christian missionary in a land of idols and moral pestilence; and the following pages evince that she has t forgotten those among whom she would gladly have labored longer, had t disease compelled her return to her native land. She gives us a very condensed and unambitious narrative of the condition of Hindoostan and its people, and which is all the more interesting from the fact that it is almost entirely derived from her own personal acquaintance with that interesting, but superstitious and degraded people. - Besides its interest in other respects, it will serve to illustrate the operations of the human mind while endeavoring to feel after God, without the light of divine Revelation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy 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.