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Bhowras or ground bees. The ursus labialis or long-lipped bear. Recross the stream. Florican. Stag running the gauntlet of flame. Our bag. Start for factory. Remarks on elephants. Precautions useful for protection from the sun in tiger shooting. The puggree. Cattle breeding in India, and wholesale deaths of cattle from disease. Nathpore. Ravages of the river. Mrs.
But the country here is so wild, the river takes such erratic courses during the annual floods, and the district is so secluded and so seldom visited by Europeans or factory servants, that my syce had evidently lost his way. After we had crossed innumerable streams, and laboriously traversed mile upon mile of burning sand, we gave up the attempt to find the ghat, and made for Nathpore.
She was the last remaining link connecting the present with the past glories of Nathpore. Her husband had been a planter and Zemindar. Where his vats had stood laden with rich indigo, the engulphing sand now reflected the rays of the torrid sun from its burning whiteness.
They all loved and respected, and I could not help admiring and honouring her. She pointed out to me, far away on the south-east horizon, the place where the river ran in its shallow channel when she first came to Nathpore.
Since I left that part of the country I hear that she has been called away to join those who had gone before her. I arrived at her house late in the afternoon. I had never been at Nathpore before, although the place was well known to me by reputation. What a wreck it presented as our elephants marched through.
Nathpore was formerly a considerable town, not far from the Nepaul border, a flourishing grain mart and emporium for the fibres, gums, spices, timbers, and other productions of a wide frontier. There was a busy and crowded bazaar, long streets of shops and houses, and hundreds of boats lying in the stream beside the numerous ghats, taking in and discharging their cargoes.
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