CHAPTER IX. 



JOGGED along 

 comfortably 

 enough in my 

 palanquin, medi- 

 'tating upon the 

 very jolly time I 

 had passed in the Himalaya hills and 

 wishing it could all come over again ; and 

 then I thought I would act differently in 

 this case, and in that ; that I should have 

 allowed this bear to charge more home 

 before firing, or that buffalo to get away a 

 little further, and so on. In this manner I 



