------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. The cover image has been modified to include the title, author and publication date, and is, so modified, added to the public domain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE _EAST INDIA_ VADE-MECUM OR =COMPLETE GUIDE= TO GENTLEMEN INTENDED FOR THE _CIVIL, MILITARY, OR NAVAL SERVICE_ OF THE Hon. East India Company. [Illustration] BY CAPTAIN THOMAS WILLIAMSON _Author of ‘The Wild Sports of the East.’_ [Illustration] IN TWO VOLUMES ------- _VOL. I._ ---------------------------- London: PRINTED FOR BLACK, PARRY, and KINGSBURY, Booksellers to the Honorable East India Company, 7, LEADENHALL-STREET ------- 1810. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Printed by Turner and Harwood, St. John’s Square, London. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO THE _HON. COURT OF DIRECTORS,_ OF THE =East India Company= ---------- HONORABLE SIRS, _A work professedly undertaken with the view to promote the welfare, and to facilitate the progress, of those young gentlemen who may, from time to time, be appointed to situations under your several Presidencies, will, I flatter myself, receive from your_ HONORABLE COURT _that encouragement the importance of the subject solicits, and to which my own good intentions may justly offer a claim. Under your auspices, my labors cannot fail to prove of public utility, as well as to reward that zeal, and that assiduity, with which they have proceeded, under the alluring hope of meriting the approbation of your_ HONORABLE COURT. _I have the honor to be,_