God Save the Queen.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, misspelling by the author, and inconsistent or archaic usage, has been retained. For example, body guard, body-guard; daylight, day light; everywhere, every where; headquarters, head-quarters.
[p. viii] duplicate 'and' removed from 'this one and and'.
[p. xiii] 'Incideut' replaced by 'Incident'.
[p. xiii], [61] 'Wheat-shooks' replaced by 'Wheat-shocks'.
[p. 17] 'eighteeen' replaced by 'eighteen'.
[p. 21] 'Mauritus' replaced by 'Mauritius'.
[p. 23] 'Governor General's' replaced by 'Governor-General's' for consistency.
[p. 24] 'aligators' replaced by 'alligators'.
[p. 31] 'though' replaced by 'through'.
[p. 33] 'though' replaced by 'through'.
[p. 38], [66] 'p. m.' replaced by 'p.m.' for consistency.
[p. 41] duplicate 'and' removed from 'city and and'.
[p. 43] 'Shah Shojah' replaced by 'Shah-Soojah'.
[p. 43] 'Elphinston' replaced by 'Elphinstone'.
[p. 52] 'souse' replaced by 'soused'.
[p. 54] 'couse' replaced by 'cause'.
[p. 55] 'Khyber' replaced by 'Kyber' for consistency.
[p. 59] 'make ugly' replaced by 'made ugly'.
[p. 75] '--' added after 'Jack'.
[p. 78] 'Grand turnout' replaced by 'Grand turn out' for consistency.
[p. 98] 'meet' replaced by 'meat'.
[p. 99] duplicate 'the' removed from 'squares of the the'.
[p. 109] 'Ferosha' replaced by 'Ferusha'.
[p. 127] 'Kshadriya' replaced by 'Kshatriya'.
[p. 130] 'bath' replaced by 'birth'.
[p. 131] 'baths' replaced by 'births'.
[p. 135] 'lacks' replaced by 'lakhs'.
[p. 141] duplicate 'and' removed from 'and and twenty'.
[p. 147] 'attrocities' replaced by 'atrocities'.
[p. 151], [152] 'Gaiku' replaced by 'Gaika'.
[p. 172] 'Poictiers' replaced by 'Poitiers'.
[p. 189] 'Maharratta' replaced by 'Maharatta'.
Many occurences of 'Sing' have been retained; probably should be 'Singh'.
For consistency:
several occurrences of 'Shah Soojah' replaced by 'Shah-Soojah';
several occurrences of 'Affghanistan' replaced by 'Afghanistan';
two occurrences of 'Alliwal' replaced by 'Aliwal';
two occurrences of 'Jellalabad' replaced by 'Jellelabad'.