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Their host came to fetch them himself with two elephants; Badshah, carrying a charjama, conveying them, while the other animal bore their luggage and servants. With jealous rage in his heart Chunerbutty watched them go. Noreen enjoyed the journey through the forest and up the mountains, with Dermot sitting beside her to act as her guide, for on this occasion Ramnath drove Badshah.
Half-way up the road to the Mess Wargrave looked back and saw an elephant heave into sight around a bend below the Dermots' house and plod heavily up to their gate. On the charjama the passenger-carrying contrivance of wooden seats on the pad with footboards hanging by short ropes sat a lady and two European men holding white umbrellas up to keep off the vertical rays of the noonday sun.
On this pad, if passengers are to be carried, a wooden seat with footboards hanging by cords from it and called a charjama is placed. Only for sport in open country or high grass jungle is the cage-like howdah employed. Dermot replaced Badshah's heavy pad by a small, light one, especially made, or else took him out absolutely bare.