312 THE HIGHLANDS OF CENTEAL INDIA. 



Lately a wheel-road up the hill from the railway station of 

 Bankheri has been constructed, and one of the loveliest spots 

 in India is now in a fair way of having justice done to it 

 at last* 



Horns of Hog-deer, Barking-deer, male and female Cbikara, and Four-horned Antelope. 

 (Scale, one tenth.) 



I shall not say much of my long ride of a hundred miles to 

 Jubbulpiir in the soaking rain, through the stiff black mud 

 and unbridged streams of the Narbada" valley. It was very 

 miserable, with the chills of ague in one's bones. A luxuriant 

 seat in a first-class saloon now whirls the visitor to Puch- 

 murree over those weary miles ; and the pioneers of earlier 

 days must not prate of their hardships. "With the exception 

 of a few days, when I had the excellent society of my friend 



Since writing the above I have seen that Government has sanctioned the 

 experimental establishment of a sanatarium for European soldiers at Puch- 

 murree. It cannot fail to prove a success if properly managed. 



