In my opinion, the ideal reader could have been an educated English person.

At first, he must read properly and be also interested in travels to the East up to India. At that age (1800-1900) only a few people had the possibility to travel to those remote plates. This lecture may encourage the imagination and the fantasy of the reader, permitting him to travel with his mind and visualizing the strange and exotic culture of the Hill people, that lived in little communities and based on the agriculture and breeding.

A dramatic aspect of this lecture is the exploitation and the cruelty of English people, that didn't permit Indian people to be integrated in the society and considered them as "savages", despite the presence of the "Christian Mission" that converted them.

For me, Lispeth was an example of integrated person between Hill people and English but both parts didn't approve this attitude: for example, her own people hated her because she became a memsahib and washed herself daily. The Chaplain's wife told the simple Lispeth that nothing with the English man would have happened because they belonged to different clays.

For me, this lecture is a denunciation of the racism and hostility that these parts had for each other. So the reader must not accept this situation but be agree to the integration of the exotic culture of the Hill people with English. He must share the position of Lispeth that didn't abandon her "Hill-girl" nature but tried to become more and more similar to English, failing.