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Rajmahal. The Mootee-Jhurna waterfall.-Secreegully-The
Terriagurry Pass.-Peer-Pointee.-Colgong.-Bhagulpore.—
Cleveland's monuments.-Mount Mandar.--The rock of Jan-
geerah. Sultangung.—The ancient Buddhist Vihara, or mon-

Mount Parisnath.-Topechanchee.

The Hindoostanee proverb

about Bengal.-Jain temple at Parisnath.-Doomree.-The
desolation of the hill-regions.-The man carried by a tiger.

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Allahabad.The Ganges and Jumna.-Shaving operation at
their confluence. The Allahabad mela.-Antiquity of the
city. Ancient Hindoo Republic at Allahabad.-Legend of
the Seraswattee river. The Allahabad fort.-The transmi-

INTRODUCTION.

THE 'Travels of a Hindoo,' by Baboo Bholanauth Chunder, which are now for the first time published in Europe, will be found on perusal to be among the most remarkable, and certainly among the most original, works which have hitherto appeared in connection with India. These Travels originally appeared from week to week in a Calcutta periodical entitled the 'Saturday Evening Englishman,' and in that shape they soon attracted public attention. That the author was a Hindoo seemed scarcely open to question. His thoughts and expressions respecting family and social life were evidently moulded by a Hindoo training; whilst his observations and opinions, especially as regards places of pilgrimage and other matters connected with religion, were eminently Hindoo. At the same time, however, his thorough mastery of the English language, and his wonderful familiarity with English ideas and turns of thought, which could only have been obtained by an extensive course of English reading, appear to have led some to suspect that after all the real knight-errant might prove to be a European in the disguise of a Hindoo.

The present writer has been requested by Baboo Bholanauth Chunder to introduce his Travels to the English public; and accordingly considers it desirable in the first place to assure the reader that the Baboo is a veritable

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