The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, volume 1 (of 2) By His Wife, Isabel Burton
CHAPTER VI.
MY PUBLIC LIFE BEGINS.
The voyage and arrival--The sanitarium--His moonshee--Indian Navy--English bigotry--Engages servants--Reaches Baroda--Brother officers--Mess --Drill--Pig-sticking--Sport--Society--Feeding --Nautch--Reviews--Races--Cobden and Indian history --Somnath gates--Outram and Napier--He learns Indian riding and training--Passes exams. in Hindostani --Receives the Brahminical thread--On the march--Embarks for Sind--Karáchi, Sind--He passes in Maharátta.