CHAPTER II. 



HREE weeks passed before we 

 had any dispatch from the 

 military authorities, in the mean 

 time my sporting friends and 

 myself kept the camp well 

 supplied with game; we bagged 

 large game very often, and at our mess we 

 revelled also in partridge pies, jugged and 

 roast hares, and occasionally a florakin, 

 which is reckoned the finest flavoured bird 

 in India. It is about the size of a jungle 

 cock, but its flesh is very tender and 

 delicate, and it was greatly esteemed by 



