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shape of a vegetable, and in anticipation 

 of these occasions, we always had with 

 US carrots hermetically sealed in tin. I also 

 always carried a certain stock of hermetically 

 sealed sonps and provisions, for in the 

 wilder parts of the Himalayas, it would 

 not do to trust alone to the gun for food, 

 and I also found by experience, that where 

 the work is so hard it did not answer to be 

 on short commons. 



There is a capital substitute for tea, in 

 the inner bark of the yew tree, dried and 

 prepared like tea. The colour is perfect, 

 but I never could find much taste in the 

 infusion, although one of my friends once 

 said that he liked it better than tea. 



Every arrangement for a lengthened 

 expedition being made, we left Chingallee, 

 and shot upwards in the direction of 

 Gangoutrie ; keeping the left bank of the 

 Ganges, and looking over ground which I had 

 not visited the previous year. I am almost 

 tired of recording in my journal the beauty 

 of the scenery, but however wearisome 



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