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not always procurable, and we had 

 often to go long distances out of our way 

 for it. 



I rose early the next morning and pro- 

 ceeded to the mess tent to enquire 

 4 'What's the news?" But, though I 

 asked many of my brother officers whom 

 I met, no one seemed to know what would 

 be the next move. I felt sure, in my own 

 mind, that Government would not send so 

 large a force such a distance without in- 

 flicting a lesson that the natives would not 

 easily forget, and subsequent events 

 showed I was not far out in my surmises. 

 About mid- day I heard that we were to 

 follow the Nepaulese army as soon as the 

 men and horses were sufficiently rested, 

 and, as this would entail the delay of a 

 week, I determined to have a little shoot- 

 ing ; so, one day I started with two 



