George Forster, an English traveller, died in Nagpoor in 1792. He was in the service of the East India company, and in 1782 undertook an overland journey from India to Russia. Disguised as a Mussulman merchant, and able to speak Hindoo, Persian, and the Mahratta dialect with facility, he set out from Lucknow, travelling northward by Ferozabad and Ram-poor into the upper regions of the Punjaub. He then proceeded by Bellaspoor and Jambo through the vale of Cashmere, which had been visited before by no European traveller except Bernier. He passed by Cabool, Candahar, and Herat, to the southern coast of the Caspian sea, and travelled thence through Russia, arriving in England in 1784. After publishing "Sketches of the Mythology and Customs of the Hindoos" (London, 1785), he returned to Calcutta, where in 1790 appeared the first volume of his Journey from Bengal to England,'1 etc. It was republished in London in 1798, together with the second volume, which was printed from his manuscript. On the breaking out of hostilities with Tippoo Saib, Forster was sent on a mission to the Mahratta court of Nagpoor, where he died.