CHAPTER XXII. 



THE ROUTE. INCIDENTS OF THE JOURNEY. VARIED 

 'SCENERY. ARRIVAL IN THE REGION OF THE 

 TIGER AND THE ELEPHANT. OUR FIRST ELE- 

 PHANT HUNT IN INDIA. 



OUR destination was the province called Guzerat, which 

 is a large peninsula northwest of Bombay. We could 

 have proceeded thither in a short time bj sea, but Mr. 

 Barrill took the circuitous land route, in order to see the 

 country. At the end of the first day's journey we en 

 camped at the base of a range of mountains the height 

 of which I supposed was fifteen hundred feet. These 

 mountains extend entirely through western India. In the 

 vicinity of our encampment, they were steep and stony. On 

 all sides were forests of bamboo, presenting a straighter 

 and more regular aspet, than any woodland I had ever 

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