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country. Our last meeting was in 1865, when I was his guest 

 while on my way south from Eajpootana. Two months later 

 he died of cholera, which was then raging at Jowra. 



Towards the close of the year 1856 I accompanied 

 the agent of the Governor-General through the Gwalior 

 and Bundelcund states. We left Indore in October, and went 

 north by rapid marches, so that, even had the country been 

 favourable, we should have had little time for shooting. At 

 this season, however, the jungles were filled with high green 

 grass, and there was no prospect of shooting till the cold 

 weather set in. We tried to beat a jungle near Eagoogurh, 

 and indeed we started one large tiger, whose fresh footprints 

 we found over our own on our way back to the tents, but we 

 could make nothing of it, and did not again renew the attempt. 

 At Seepree we encountered a violent thunderstorm. The 

 ground was hard as iron, and in pitching the camp there 

 had been a great destruction of tent-pegs. We were in the 

 cantonment at the time, calling on some of the officers, and 

 on returning to our camp we found it flat, with the exception 

 of the big man's tent, which had only been kept standing by 

 half-a-dozen men holding on to every rope. 



The soil of the place was red, having a strong admixture 

 of ironstone, and our tents bore the marks of that storm for 

 many a day. To add to our discomfort, cholera had broken 

 out among a large party which had joined us from Oujein, 

 and had been communicated to our camp. 



The disease was aggravated by the wet and discomfort, 

 and for some days we had many deaths among our people. 



From Seepree we moved on Jansi, having some very good 

 snipe-shooting on the road. At one large tank they were 

 especially numerous, and sometimes we had six and seven birds 

 lying dead around us. We also made some good bags of 



