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temporary bridges over the river. These we made 

 in the roughest fashion out of palm trees and logs 

 felled at the crossing places, and had a flood come 

 down they would, of course, have both been swept 

 away ; fortunately, however, this did not occur until 

 the permanent work was completed. The whole of 



HEF.RA SINGH MADE A WILD SPRING INTO THE WATER TO GET CLEAR 

 OF THE FALLING STONE." 



this feeding line was finished in a very short time, 

 and trollies were soon plying backwards and 

 forwards with loads of stone and sand, as we also 

 discovered the latter in abundance and of good 

 quality in the bed of the ravine. An amusing 

 incident occurred one day when I was taking a 

 photograph of an enormous block of stone which 



