OR REMINISCENCES OF AN INDIAN JOURNALIST. BY WILLIAM KNIGHTON, M.A. AUTHOR OF "FOREST LIFE IN CEYLON." IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1855. TROPICAL SKETCHES; OR, REMINISCENCES OF AN INDIAN JOURNALIST. CHAPTER I. THE SEIKHS AND THEIR FOUNDERS. ANY one who wanders much about Calcutta with his eyes open, will soon be struck with the fine manly appearance of the Seikhs as a body. Tall and well formed, they constitute unques tionably a superior division of the native community, physically regarded. They may be seen about the bazars and the native mercantile establishments with cotton garments, not always of the cleanliest, wrapped round their loins, a close-fitting jacket on their shoulders, VOL. II. B |