The Sepoy Revolt- Its Causes and Its Consequences

Were my book to be written over again, I should like to deepen the colors in which some pictures of Indian life have been painted; but the experience which enables a man to write on the subject of Eastern government, tends to blunt his sympathies, and in some degree to injure his moral sense. Torture and lawlessness, and the perpetual suffering of millions, are so familiar to me that I am conscious of not feeling as I ought to do when wrong is done to individuals and nations. The man, who lives in the vicinity of the undertaker and boiler maker, is not likely to join in the agitation against barrel organs and street cries.

There is a malady common to savages in certain parts of the world, which is termed "earth-hunger." It provokes an incessant craving for clay, a species of food which fails to satisfy the appetite, and which impairs the power of digestion.

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