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struck work, voted the labour much too 

 severe, and declared for the source of the 

 Ganges. I, loth to quit so good a spot, 

 determined to remain behind. However, in 

 the morning I agreed to go all together, and 

 returning to the Ganges, reached Derallee, 

 where we found a party of the 21st 

 Fusileers, and smoked the pipe of peace 

 with them that evening. They had little to 

 eat or drink, and had left their guns 

 behind them. Our walk this day was very 

 beautiful, the last six miles were through a 

 magnificent forest of cedars. 



We were now within a march of Gan- 

 goutrie, and leaving one of the party behind, 

 who was unable to stand the hard work, 

 started for the Hindoo Holy of Holies. 

 The road lay through a forest of gigantic 

 cedars, the largest I ever beheld, and the 

 scenery was grandeur itself The Ganges 

 was crossed by a giddy-looking bridge, 

 thrown over the river at a place about forty 

 feet wide from rock to rock, and about 200 

 feet high. It is carried away every year by 



