原文 (英語)

CHAPTER I “Truth is strange, Stranger than fiction.” I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:— MAJOR GOLIAH O’GRADY GAHAGAN, H.E.I.C.S.,           Commanding Battalion of                     Irregular Horse,                               AHMEDNUGGAR. Seeing, I say, this simple visiting ticket, the world will avoid a