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For hours they talked together about India tiger hunts and the big Grass Jungle country in the Bund el Khand, until Skag couldn't wait any longer. He had to go to India. He told Alec, who wanted to go along, but couldn't leave old Phedra. "I've been with her too long," he said. "She's delicate, Skagee. I'm young, but she couldn't stand it for me to go.
Yet he usually calls it 'great' that should mean, the Bund el Khand. No one knows how far in; but you'll best approach it from this side. I'm not dissuading you; I'd like to be along. I'm offering you choice of my assortment of firing-pieces. I'll work you out some running lines they'll be ready by late-breakfast time. But I'm certain your best place to leave the tracks will be Sehora."
Government has named one part of it over toward the eastern end of the Vindhas the Bund el Khand, the closed country; that name tells its own story." Dickson Sahib stopped, frowning. "The native with silks to exchange goes down to Bombay?" he went on. "That means, not Calcutta-way. It also means, not anywhere in the Deccan which clears us away from large tracts.
Alec told him how to reach the jungle of all jungles, ever old, ever new, ever innocent on the outside, ever deadly within the Grass Jungle country around Hattah and Bigawar the Bund el Khand. The Cloud Brothers had paid him well for his years; there was still script in his clothes for travel, but Skag had a queer relation to money, only using it when the law required.
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