RIFLE AND SPEAR WITH 

 THE RAJPOOTS 



CHAPTER I 



En route — Spurts on board — " Dear old tunes " — Church at a canter — 

 Music at sea — Bombay Harbour — Kurrachee — Government House 

 — An Indian Whiteley — An aristocratic butler — Santan's gage 

 d'amour — Lahore — An Ali Baba coachman—" (Sudden death." 



We left Brindisi for Bom- 

 bay by the P. and 0. mail 

 steamer, our intention being 

 not to land at Bombay, but 

 td go on by steamer to 

 Kurrachee, and thence to 

 Kashmir, via Lahore and 

 the Indus Valley railroad. 

 The sea voyage will be a 

 little longer, but we shall escape at least two clays' Indian 

 railway travelling, which at this time of year is very 

 lmt and dusty. If it is worse than the Italian railway 

 journey to Brindisi. it must be bad indeed. 



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