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was quite unaccustomed to meet Europeans. He 

 had very large eyes, which would have been fierce 

 if it had not been for the very long eyelashes with 

 which they were fringed, an aquiline nose, small 

 moustache, and well-formed mouth. Fred had 

 first met with him whilst on a shooting expedition, 

 when he and several of his people were prostrated 

 with fever; and luckily having a medicine chest 

 amongst his baggage, he managed, by a judicious 

 administration of quinine, to set them all on their 

 legs again. Since then a reciprocal friendship had 

 sprung up between them, and Fred had visited his 

 mountain fastness, where he was most hospitably 

 entertained. We had a second tent pitched a 

 short distance from ours, in case he might prefer to 

 eat alone, but he very quaintly informed us that he 

 left his caste prejudices with the Brahmins when 

 he went out either to fight or hunt. The Doctor 

 and his party had not yet arrived, although early 

 in the day he had sent in a coolie with a young 

 spotted deer he had shot ; so, after waiting half- 

 an-hour — which was strictly against camp law — 

 we sat down to dinner without him; but had 



