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NYNEE TAL. 



it, which, in my humble opinion, detract much from the 

 enjoyment of this style of sport ; and from the close heat 

 of the atmosphere and the thickness of the jungle, it can 

 hardly be either pleasurably or properly achieved in the 

 Terai on foot. For my part, give me mountain work, with 

 its freedom of action, glorious scenery, and fresh bracing air, 

 and with one's own wits and limbs only to depend upon in 

 pursuit of game. 



After a rest at the mountain sanitarium of Nynee Tal, 

 with its deep clear Tal, or lake, lying embosomed among its 

 beautiful surroundings of steep wooded slopes and moss- 

 grown crags, a few days more through the mountains brought 

 us to our recruiting station, and, I may add, my first hunt- 

 ing-ground in the Himalayas, after a long hot journey to it 

 of about 750 miles. 



Crossing a " jula. 



