CHAPTER IX. 



DEHRA DOON — THE DEHRA RACES OF 1 8/ I — ABOO 

 JANOUB AND ABDOOL RAHMAN — GOOCH AND DIG- 

 NUM — RANELAGH AND KARPOS — WILLIAMS. 



The rains of 1871 fell so heavily in the Punjab that 

 when I started with Ranelagh, Caliph, Hawkestone, 

 and Spavin, about the beginning of August, for Dehra 

 Doon, we had to march the whole distance, as the 

 heavy rain which had fallen had rendered the railway 

 unserviceable. 



Although the time has long since passed, I well 

 remember the first time I saw the lovely Doon, A six- 

 mile walk through a wooded and winding mountain 

 road took us over the Siwalik range, and then, sud- 

 dcnh", at a turn of the road, the green expanse of plain 

 and valley, covered here and there with the grey mists 

 of morning, burst on our view. Ten miles beyond 

 where we stood, the dark Himalayas rose abruptly from 



