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Excerpt from The Rajah's People
IN earlier days a Preface to a novel with no direct historical source always seemed to me somewhat out-of place since I believed that the author could be indebted solely to his own imagination. I have learnt, however, that even in a novel par sang it is possible to owe much to others, and I now take the opportunity which the despised preface Offers to pay my debt - inadequately, it is true - to Mr. Hughes Massie, whose enthusiastic help in the launching Of this, my first serious literary effort, I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
