'Up the Country': Letters Written to Her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India

CHAPTER I.

On board the 'Megna' flat, Saturday, Oct. 21, 1837.

'Once more upon the waters, yet once more,' and so on. We are now fairly off for eighteen months of travelling by steamers, tents, and mountains--and every day of a cabin seems to me like so much waste. They ought all to go to the great account of the long voyage that will, at last, take us home...