Excerpt from A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian HistoryIt was a fiery day in the end of the month of May I 59 when a small party of horsemen, evidently weary, from long travel, were passing over the plains which lie north of the Krishna river. They carefully avoided village and road tracks, and kept a steady course eastward across the cultivated and uncultivated ground which seemed well known to them. There were no hedges, as the fields are unenclosed, except near the villages and there were no trees, except distant clumps here and there, which marked the site of a village or hamlet, or perchance a lonely Mussulman shrine or Hindoo temple.Nothing could be more dreary or desolate in appearance than the landscape, every green thing had long ago been burnt up, the soil was for the most part black and cracked and the fields, which had been or were being ploughed, were broken into large clods, over which the tired horses strained with difficulty.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.