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'All their books are in the large kilta with the reddish top books and reports and maps and I have seen a King's letter that either Hilas or Bunar has written. They guard it most carefully. They have sent nothing back from Hilas or Leh. That is sure. 'Who is with them? 'Only the beegar-coolies. They have no servants. They are so close they cook their own food. 'But what am I to do?
For the rest, Hurree could so stage-manage the journey through the hills that Hilas, Bunar, and four hundred miles of hill-roads should tell the tale for a generation. Men who cannot control their own coolies are little respected in the Hills, and the hillman has a very keen sense of humour.
Some have supposed that the city has received its name from lying between these two rivulets Burna, Assi, making the word Burunassi, Benares; but this derivation is more than doubtful. Others maintain the word comes from a famous rajah called Bunar; but this, too, is a mere conjecture. Let me take my readers with me on a trip down the river.
This pleased the Government, anxious to avoid expense, and a bond was made for so many rupees a month that Hilas and Bunar should guard the Passes as soon as the State's troops were withdrawn. At that time it was after we two met I, who had been selling tea in Leh, became a clerk of accounts in the Army.
Over the Passes this year after snow-melting' he shivered afresh 'come two strangers under cover of shooting wild goats. They bear guns, but they bear also chains and levels and compasses. 'Oho! The thing gets clearer. 'They are well received by Hilas and Bunar. They make great promises; they speak as the mouthpiece of a Kaisar with gifts.
They must all be kept. The maps they draw better maps than me of course. All the native letters oho! and particularly the murasla. He sniffed the embroidered bag. 'That must be from Hilas or Bunar, and Hurree Babu spoke truth. By Jove! It is a fine haul. I wish Hurree could know ... The rest must go out of the window. He fingered a superb prismatic compass and the shiny top of a theodolite.
Up the valleys, down the valleys go they, saying, "Here is a place to build a breastwork; here can ye pitch a fort. Here can ye hold the road against an army" the very roads for which I paid out the rupees monthly. The Government knows, but does nothing. The three other Kings, who were not paid for guarding the Passes, tell them by runner of the bad faith of Bunar and Hilas.
The British Government will change the succession in Hilas and Bunar, and nominate new heirs to the throne. "Trea-son most base" ... but you do not understand? Eh? 'Are they in thy hands? said Kim. It was all he cared for. 'Just you jolly-well bet yourself they are. He stowed the entire trove about his body, as only Orientals can. 'They are going up to the office, too.
With twelve thousand Turkish reenforcements a day arriving from Asia, even hours counted. As yet, the Turks were not decisively beaten; only the right that fought at Kirk-Kilesseh had been really demoralized. On the line of Bunar Hissar to Lüle Burgas they formed to receive the second shock. They were given scant time to prepare for it. "Na noj!"
When the troops were withdrawn, I was left behind to pay the coolies who made new roads in the Hills. This road-making was part of the bond between Bunar, Hilas, and the Government. 'So? And then? 'I tell you, it was jolly-beastly cold up there too, after summer, said Hurree Babu confidentially. 'I was afraid these Bunar men would cut my throat every night for thee pay-chest.
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