The Start. 



Calcutta-Peshawar railway route, whence the Punjab Mail took 

 me on to Rawalpindi. Here a tonga service runs to Murree and 

 Srinagar, the mail tonga leaving after the arrival of the train, but 



RIFLEMAN GIVAN SING. 



on this occasion the driver was induced to tarry the while I dis- 

 cussed a hasty meal in the railway hotel. A tonga is a low, two- 

 horsed vehicle, strongly built, and capable of withstanding much, 



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