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will be together probably for years, serves 

 to cement friendship. At the hotel I found 

 a letter from the adjutant of the regiment, 

 who wrote by the desire of the command- 

 ing officer, to say, as he heard I had 

 been on a shooting tour, he requested that 

 I would rejoin the head-quarters without 

 delay ; for, if I were well enough to go out 

 shooting among the Himalaya mountains 

 for a month, I must be strong enough to 

 do my duty with the regiment. I wrote 

 to the adjutant, for the commanding 

 officer's information, that I was prepared 

 at once to rejoin the head quarters; and 

 when my letter was ended, I lighted my 

 cheroot and thought over my next move. 



The result of my meditations was, that I 

 should immediately send to the kotwdl, 

 desiring him to let me have twenty coolies 

 the following morning, to carry myself 



