16 TO SIRINIJGGUR. 



after trying every persuasive and seducing attitude, failed 

 to move an admirer, and being chilled returned to camp 

 and breakfast, when I regaled upon the morsel I have 

 above described. 



I passed the day reading, and anxious for the shades of 

 evening to permit my further attempts on the fishes, 

 but to cut short this evening's proceeding need only say 

 that I fastened to another leviathan in the same pool, 

 after many indecisive offers had been made ; but, woe is 

 me ! he at once, after feeling himself fast and trying rod 

 and line, bored straight down, and cutting my bottom- 

 line over a stone got clear off with my set of spinning 

 tackle. Let me draw a veil over my misery, nor again 

 awake memory to the bitterness of my disappointment. 



26th April. To Thanna. The road still running in com- 

 pany with the river, the courses only being reversed. This 

 day's march was much pleasanter than any previous one^ 

 there being but little up and down comparatively, and the 

 pathway in many places lying under shady wooded slopes, 

 its sides fringed with numbers of sweet-smelling shrubs. 



The approach to Thanna presents a lovely view of the 

 Rattan Panjal range in front ; and on the left-hand is a 

 well- wooded range of hills, beneath which are undulating 

 slopes, whereon is a good deal of cultivation which is in 

 some parts carried in terraces to the tops of the hills. 

 There is an old fort-like building, formerly the habitation 

 of some ruffian of a rajah, I presume. The camp was 

 pitched close to a small village on the road to the Rattan 

 Pir. At this place Suleiman had an attentive audience 

 of some ten or twelve respectable natives, who listened 

 to his account of our religion with pleasure, and were 

 glad to accept some Gospels and tracts, never having, they 

 said, obtained any accurate idea before of what the 

 Christian Faith consisted. 



