I did not think it necessary to mention, in my story, that Nana Furnuwees presented me with a considerable sum of money; and Bajee Rao did the same.

This I invested in land close to Bombay, which is now covered with houses, and fetched five times the price I gave for it.

In addition to this, I have been in civil employment for the past six years and, as I have always been on the move, I have never had the expense of an establishment, and have thus saved some five thousand pounds.
"Therefore I am master of something over ninety thousand pounds; and can, if I do not return to India--which I have, I may say, already made up my mind not to do, buy an estate.

I have had very much more than my share of adventures, and have marvellously escaped.

If I return, my luck might change.
"At any rate, I have had enough of it.