290 SPORTING AND 



homes, and Smith and I started off with a 

 guide; after a tremendous day's walking 

 we arrived late in the evening at our hotel, 

 and sat down with thankfulness to our 

 mutton cutlets and curry and rice. I was 

 not sorry, after all, to get back to the 

 comforts of a house again, for the last few 

 days had been very wet, and no one, who 

 has not experienced it, can realize the 

 discomforts of travelling in the Himalayas 

 in bad weather ; the natives dislike it so 

 much, and look at one so beseechingly, 

 to help them out of it, that you feel as if 

 you were murdering the poor fellows by 

 subjecting them to the dreaded wet and 

 cold ; and, though we hurried on as fast 

 as we could to cantonments, still two or 

 three of our men were very ill on the road, 

 and the shikari told us the only thing that 

 could save them was to get them into 



