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Excerpt from The Unknown Steersman
The hill station lay in a cup of the Himalayas. It was not quite a perfect cup, for in one place the steep green slopes failed their complete circle and left the way to the plains open. Here alone the eye looked downwards instead of up, and saw far below a wide golden expanse cleft by a silver sword-blade, that meant a great river. Few troubled to stand on the edge of the precipice and look downwards. Everybody knew that the golden plain turned into molten dust on nearer acquaintance. Green is ever a favourite colour in India, so Society lifted its eyes up to the hills. Society in the tea-cup was always very busy over its work and its pleasure. Every year when the hot wind began to devastate fields and gardens and complexions, the Govern ment of the province migrated into kindlier hill regions so that the business of State might receive the better attention. 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.
