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do for the protection of his little army. 

 All this gave us ample occupation for the 

 next few days ; and then, as it would take 

 weeks before we could hear from the 

 Commander in Chief, and as we were 

 assured from the accounts of the villagers, 

 who brought milk, eggs, ghi (a kind of 

 butter), and poultry into our camp 'daily, 

 that there were no hostile Nepaulese in 

 our neighbourhood, some of us young- 

 sters determined to try the shooting in 

 the vicinity of our encampment ; for we 

 heard there were plenty of bison, deer, 

 jungle fowl and pea fowl, besides par- 

 tridge, quail, and hare. 



One morning, just as the sun was rising 

 in Oriental splendour, four of us sallied 

 out with our guns, intent on making a 

 good bag. We had asked the Major's 

 permission to go, and he had insisted upon 



