She is the daughter of a British officer named Mansfield, and was carried away from her parents, eight years ago.

She was the only white captive left in the Palace.

There have been other girls, in a similar position, but they have all, at about fourteen or fifteen, been given by Tippoo to his officers; as would have been her fate, before long, so I determined to carry her off with me, and bring her to you, until we could find her parents.

She is a very plucky girl, and, although she had never been on a horse before, rode all the way down, until we got this side of Kistnagherry.

But as you may imagine, the poor little thing is completely knocked up, so we brought her down from there in a cart.
"It is something, Mother, to have saved one captive from Tippoo's grasp, even though it is not the dear one that I was looking for; and I promised that you would be a mother to her, until we could restore her to her friends." "Certainly I will, Dick," Mrs.Holland said warmly.
"Will you tell the girls, Gholla," she said to her sister-in-law, "to have a bed made up for her, in my room ?" "I will do so at once," the ranee said.