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a good hiding and have his talab cut 

 (which means his pay deducted), and, as 

 most of them had been on similar expedi- 

 tions before with him, I did not anticipate 

 losing anything, nor did we lose a single 

 article during the expedition. We got off 

 just at daylight, and for a good while 

 struggled on through a thick fog, but our 

 shikari assured us the fog would lift as the 

 sun rose, and he was right, for it turned 

 out a heavenly day ; and, as we ascended 

 to the top of a hill just above the station, 

 the view was most enchanting. We now 

 entered some scrubby bush composed of 

 dwarf oaks and clematis prettily grouped 

 together; this was very pleasing to the 

 eye, but we had other business on hand 

 that required all our attention, and we 

 pushed on. The dogs now beating very 

 closely I ran up just in time for a double 



