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NYNEE TAL. 



achieved in the Terai on foot. For my part, give me moun- 

 tain 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 hunting-ground 

 in the Himalayas, after a long hot journey to it of about 750 

 miles. 



Crossing a " 



