Digital Rare Book:
Ralph Fitch : England's pioneer to India and Burma : His companions and contemporaries, with his remarkable narrative told in his own words.
By John Horton Ryley
Published by T.Fisher Unwin, London - 1899

Book Excerpt:
"Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India, has described the origin of our power in that empire in a single sentence. In an eloquent sympathetic speech, delivered at a farewell banquet given to him by the Royal Societies' Club on November 7, 1898, he said that, " The casual stone which was thrown into the sea of chance by a handful of merchant adventurers two hundred years ago had produced an ever-extending circle of ripples, until at the present moment they embraced the limits and affected the destinies of the entire Asiatic continent." The story of the handful of men, and of the " casual stone," is told in the following pages, but it has been necessary to add a century and more to his lordship's retrospect."


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