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R. had been stationed here some time, but his wife is a new arrival, so we found her engaged in making a round of first calls the newcomer calls on the residents in India seventeen in one day was her record I believe possibly a Bangalore record it would have killed any man. We drove round the tanks and pretty avenues and parks after lunch, and through the native town.
Krishna bustles round packing things bustles is hardly the word though, for his barefooted, silent effectiveness. And snoring hardly the word for the noise that son of a thief, the watchman, makes outside. Good-bye to Dharwar, we are on the move again, the comparatively cold-weather tourists take the road south to Bangalore.
I was to stay at their place, sight-see Bangalore if I liked and inform my parents as soon as I was ready to return. This then was the general plan. I reached Bangalore at 1.40 p.m. on the 7th of January. We drove to his house, me chatting away in reply to all his questions. At home there was Ujwala and their kids, Zuri and her younger brother, Zaeer.
Coming here from Bangalore to Mysore, the line is interesting all the way, the scenes change constantly I have very distinct recollections of at first "garden scenery," then jungle and bushy woods running into rocky gorges, barren sand wastes and rich rolling corn lands alternating in the few hours run, yet in my journal I have not a line of pen or scrape of pencil of these scenes; I daresay the reader has noticed this, that scenes taken unconsciously on the tablets of memory unconscious impressions are more lasting than those taken down consciously and deliberately.
I don't seem to remember having seen your face before." "No, perhaps not, and it's precious little you can see now, I should think, unless you've got cat's eyes, and can see in the dark," was the somewhat surly response. "Yes," he continued, "I'm Joe Maxwell, late carpenter of the Bangalore, and well, yes, `shipped' is the word, I suppose.
Even when it was discovered that they had left the Palace, it would be thought that they had received some order from Bangalore, either to join the sultan, or to go on some mission for him that had occupied more time than they had anticipated on starting. The idea that two officers, who were considered to stand high in Tippoo's favour, should desert, would scarcely occur to anyone.
"Thou speakest truth but when thou art Governor of Bangalore, hast thou forces to hold the place till thou art relieved by the Mahrattas, or by the British?" "Doubt it not the soldiers of the Begum Mootee Mahul, whom the Europeans call Montreville, are less hers than mine. With these I could keep Bangalore for two months, and the British army may be before it in a week.
After this, he understood it was the purpose of the Begum Mootee Mahul, to proceed by slow marches and frequent halts, to Bangalore, the vicinity of which place she did not desire to reach until Prince Tippoo, with whom she desired an interview, should have returned from an expedition towards Vandicotta, in which he had lately been engaged.
... Now we are off again to Bangalore, loath to leave our leafy siding and the gentle faces at Channapatna, but R. has to be about business in the south again, so we go back planning our next move, and we think we will decide on Madras!
While Hartley was thus meditating, he was roused to attention by a heavy firing of artillery from the high bastions of the town; and turning his eyes in that direction, he could see advancing, on the northern side of Bangalore, a tide of cavalry, riding tumultuously forward, brandishing their spears in all different attitudes, and pressing their horses to a gallop.
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