[1] Trading-posts for the supply of necessaries to the soldiers; but the author means, in explicit terms, the chakla or brothel.

[2] We resigned June 15, 1896.

[3] The Cantonments we visited were Bareilly, Lucknow, Meerut, Lahore (Cantonment Station, Meean Meer), Rawal Pindi, Peshawar, Amritzar, Umballa, Sitapur, and Benares. Five of these we visited a second time.

[4] An official form of expression.

[5] For forms of tickets of registration of prostitutes see Departmental Committee Report (1893), pages 12, 331, 334, and 335.

[6] A term applied to British residents in India.

[7] When Lieut-General Lord Sandhurst was questioned before the Royal Commission of 1871 as to the advisability of soldiers being periodically examined by male physicians, he replied that he preferred to treat his soldiers “as reasonable men, not as brutes.” Let women show at least equal consideration for women.

[8] Perhaps they had in mind such a case as the woman we interviewed at Cantonment Bareilly. Her father was Scotch, she said—her mother, Portuguese; she had been trained by Dr. C——. She went every day to the brothels and examined the women. She owned the brothels, and resided with an official to whom she was not married. (See page 133, Departmental Committee Report, 1893.)

[9] “Lord George Hamilton himself instigated disregard of his own command by sanctioning the repeal of the law which had embodied it, upon a pretext so grotesquely irrelevant that an admission of its ingenuousness is tantamount to a charge of imbecility against the sanctioning Minister.”—The Shield, November, 1897.

[10] Lady Henry Somerset addressed a letter to Lord George Hamilton, January 27th, 1898, withdrawing these propositions. But alas! such a tardy withdrawal cannot undo the mischief wrought to the native girls of India by the repeal of the Cantonment Acts Amendment Act of 1895 (see Appendix C).

[11] Additional colour was given to this, later, by Lady Henry Somerset placing the name of Lord Roberts (author of the “Infamous Circular Memorandum,” the history of which we have given in chapters 1 and 5) on the Advisory Board of the Duxhurst Inebriate Home of the B.W.T.A., at the Annual Conference of the Association in June, 1897.