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previous day ; he offered to show us the 

 way by which we could reach the camp in 

 a few days. He said they were in a dread- 

 ful funk at our approach, but were in hopes 

 the thick jungles would prevent our ever 

 finding the way to them. This man stipu- 

 lated for a large reward, and that we should 

 take him back with us to India when the 

 campaign was over : this our commanding 

 officer promised to do, and thus a difficult 

 business was settled. 



The next morning at daylight we started 

 with our new guide and soon realised his 

 value, for, in a few hours he extricated us 

 from our difficulties and led us into a com- 

 paratively easy, open country. It really 

 was wonderful, after the toil and great 

 labour we had experienced, to find all 

 going on so smoothly; and when the 

 pioneers had to use their axes on the trees 



