90 THE FOREST AND THE FIELD. 



I secured by fastening their legs together. This 

 done, I made my way to the spring, where I 

 waited until Chineah came up with the skins of the 

 animals first killed, when I sent him and the 

 coolies, under Ponto's guidance, to bring in the rest 

 of the game. In the meantime I refreshed myself 

 with a bath in the pool until their return, when 

 we set out on our route towards camp, and, by 

 following a deer-run, descended the hill much more 

 easily than by the way we had mounted. We got 

 to the tent an hour before sunset, and found Fred 

 and his native friend, the Ghoorka chief, enjoying 

 their manillas, and superintending the taking up 

 of nets that had been laid across the stream in 

 order to provide our table with a dish of the finny 

 tribe somewhat resembling small trout. 



I was not at all disappointed with the phy- 

 siognomy of our guest, who had a pleasing and 

 animated expression when he spoke, with none of 

 that servile, cringing obsequiousness which is the 

 general characteristic of most of the higher classes 

 of natives in India. On the contrary, his manner 

 was free and w^holly unembarrassed, although he 



