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in good time on the 22nd of April, and 

 commenced the latest, and one of the 

 most successful, of my Himalayan excur- 

 sions. 



A serious accident had lately befallen 

 Wilson ; he had dislocated his shoulder, 

 which obliged him, much to his vexation, to 

 be very careful how he used the arm, and 

 interfered greatly mth his shooting. It was 

 rather a singular coincidence, that on the 

 very day that Wilson was hurt, I met with 

 a very bad accident myself. In galloping 

 across country, my Arab, putting his foot 

 into a hole, came down, and gave me a 

 severe fall. I was hardly able to return to 

 cantonments, and thought I had broken 

 my coUar-bone. Thus on the same day, 

 being some hundreds of miles apart, we were 

 both nearly disabled ; yet in spite of our 

 disasters, we met as arranged, and went 

 through our six months' excursion, without 

 either of us feeling much serious inconve- 

 nience. I was particularly fortunate, for the 

 bone, although not snapped across, was split, 



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