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 PREFACE

HE demands made by a Work of this nature upon the generosity of specialists are very numerous; and the Editor would be wanting in all title to the generous treatment he has received were he not willing to make the fullest possible acknowledgment of his indebtedness.

His thanks are due, in the first place, to the scholarly and accomplished Bahadur Shah, baggage-elephant Number 174 on the Indian Register, who, with his amiable sister Pudmini, most courteously supplied the history of "Toomai of the Elephants" and much of the information contained in "Her Majesty's Servants." The adventures of Mowgli were collected at various times, and in various places, from a multitude xv