Begumbagh

Most of the book is taken up with a story about the plight of the British members of a small garrison, during the Indian Mutiny. The second story is about half as long, and is a well-written and extremely plausible story about a house owned by an old gentleman, where there is a collection of gold plate said to be an incubus, that is, the subject of a curse. The third story is about a couple of smugglers who get trapped in a gowt-- an exit to the sea from one of the great land-drains of Eastern England, constructed by the great Dutch engineer Vandermuydenin the seventeenth century. The last story is about a new and well-found ship that nearly founders in an Atlantic storm. The captain takes to the bottle, and command is passed to a junior officer.