CHAPTER XXXV.
MAJOR MONSOON.
Of my travelling companions I have already told my readers something.

Power is now an old acquaintance; to Sparks I have already presented them; of the adjutant they are not entirely ignorant; and it therefore only remains for me to introduce to their notice Major Monsoon.

I should have some scruple for the digression which this occasions in my narrative, were it not that with the worthy major I was destined to meet subsequently; and indeed served under his orders for some months in the Peninsula.

When Major Monsoon had entered the army or in what precise capacity, I never yet met the man who could tell.

There were traditionary accounts of his having served in the East Indies and in Canada in times long past.