[CHAPTER IV.]

OXFORD.

[Practical jokes]—[Friends]—[Fencing-rooms]—[Manners and customs—Food and smoking]—[Drs. Newman and Pusey]—[Began Arabic]—[Play]—[Town life—College friends]—[Coaching and languages]—[Latin—Greek]—[Holidays]—[The Rhine to Wiesbaden]—[The Nassau Brigade]—[The straws that broke the camel's back]—[Rusticated].

[CHAPTER V.]

GOING TO INDIA.

[He gets a commission and begins Hindostani]—[He goes to be sworn in at the India Office].

[CHAPTER VI.]

MY PUBLIC LIFE BEGINS.

[The voyage and arrival]—[The sanitarium]—[His moonshee]—[Indian Navy]—[English bigotry]—[Engages servants]—[Reaches Baroda—Brother officers]—[Mess]—[Drill]—[Pig-sticking]—[Sport]—[Society]—[Feeding]—[Nautch]—[Reviews]—[Races]—[Cobden and Indian history]—[Somnath gates]—[Outram and Napier]—[He learns Indian riding and training]—[Passes exams. in Hindostani]—[Receives the Brahminical thread]—[On the march]—[Embarks for Sind]—[Karáchi, Sind]—[He passes in Maharátta].