2 MY JOUKNAL. 



Reader, be not alarmed at that word of 

 fear — a journal. You shall not be dragged 

 panting over the heav}^ ground of historical 

 reminiscences ; neither rattled over the battle 

 fields that gained an empire, nor told after 

 what manner they should have been won. 

 I shall leave you just as well informed upon 

 the respective merits of the Supreme Court, 

 and Sudder Adowlut, as you may now 

 happen to be ; and neither salt nor opium, 

 land-tax nor khutput, shall be sufiered to 

 intrude upon our shooting-grounds. In the 

 following extracts we will wander amongst 

 the snowy peaks, and through the ice-boimd 

 valleys of the grandest mountains in the 

 world ; and, rifle in hand, note down the 

 trivmiphs and disappointments of a sports- 

 man's life in the Himalayas. 



After a delay of more than two months 

 at Chinsurah, a station surrounded by tanks, 

 fever-stricken and cholera-haunted, cursed 

 moreover with a splendid barrack, as if to 

 tempt the authorities to keep it occupied, 

 the regiment (having jmid thv toll lovicd 



