lOi ARRANGEMENTS FOE A TRIP. 



jungle, afforded us that most melancholy 

 of all sights, a modern ruin. The shootmg 

 was tolerably good, but we had no sport on 

 the march worthy of record. 



Arrived at Umballah on the 1st March, 

 and having settled myself in a good house, 

 with capital stabling, which was the more 

 necessary as everybody said we were to 

 remain there for three years ; my wishes 

 turned again to my favourite haunts in the 

 hills, and on the 15th April, Case, Clapcott, 

 and myself started for Simla. Remaining 

 there only a few days, we then crossed the 

 hills by my old route to the valley of the 

 Ganges, passing the Tonse and Jumna at the 

 old points, and joining my friend Wilson 

 early in May, at his huts at Chingallee. 



Wiser by experience, I had brought no 

 servants up from the plains, but took Oudea, 

 a boy from Wilson's village, as a personal 

 attendant, and the cooking, &c., was done by 

 Wilson's own men. Coolies to carry the tents, 

 provisions, and baggage, were easily found 

 through Wilson's influence, and I soon began 



