THE MAIIADEO HILLS. 



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and a few necessaries on a pony, and with two atten- 

 dants started up the hill on foot. For the first ten 

 miles or so the pathway led up an easy and regular 

 ascent over shelving rocks and scanty soil, whereon 

 grew a thin forest of the commoner sorts of trees, Salei 



CAMP AT ruCIIMURHEE. BUDDHIST CAVES IN THE BACKGROUND. 



{Bosivellia thurifera), Dhiiora {Conocarpus latifolia), 

 and Saj [Pentapteva glabra), being the most numerous 

 species ; the grass and vegetation on these slopes had 

 begun already to assume the yellow tinge of the dry 

 season. Such a prospect as this, which is typical of 

 vast tracts in the jungles of Central India, is sadly 

 disappointing to him who looks for the luxuriant 



