Excerpt from Glimpses of Hidden India IT must be sad to visit a country where the English are so. Much disliked. So said a Russian officer, who had been through the siege of Port Arthur. I looked at him with astonish ment but said nothing, for I had always heard that the Russians desire to replace the English in India, and I thought that the sad-eyed officer, who wore deep mourning, was prejudiced by national aspirations and jealousies. We were returning from Kandy, having visited there the Temple of the Sacred Tooth; and we carried on a desultory conversation in the train. 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 technology 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.