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season. Towards the end of the cold weather one year 

 we were encamped by a village not far from the tea 

 plantations. Our camp was pitched on a smooth tract 

 of ground close adjoining to a small strip of forest. 

 Not more than four or five months afterwards, in the 

 course of the ensuing rains, I had occasion to pass the 

 spot. To my astonishment, I found that what had so 

 lately been all open space was now a tall, thick copse, 

 so tall and thick that, had I not been mounted on 

 an elephant, I should have been hardly able to pass 

 through^it. 



