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Updated: June 6, 2025
As a compliment to the minister, he politely requested us to pay him a visit, an invitation of which we were glad to avail ourselves, since it proved his kindly feeling towards our host, whilst it gave us an opportunity of inspecting the menage of a Nepaulese Prince Royal.
Lose our way. Cold night. The river by night. Our boat and boatmen. Tigers calling on the bank. An anxious moment. Fire at and wound the tigress. Reach camp. The Nepaulee's adventure with a tiger. The old Major. His appearance and manners. The pompous Jemadar. Nepaulese proverb. Firing the jungle. Start a tiger and shoot him. Another in front. Appearance of the fires by night. The tiger escapes.
Spies had now been absent two days, and some apprehensions were entertained as to their safety, knowing the barbarity of the Nepaulese; but on the evening of the third day they returned; but not a syllable could be gleaned from the quarter-master-general's department; every ear was on the listen to catch the slightest hint, but all was silence and secrecy throughout the camp.
The difficulties of the Bishop's arrival were increased by the absence of Lord Moira, the Governor-General, who was engaged in the Nepaulese war; and as no house had been provided for the Bishop, he had to be the guest of Mr. Seton, a member of the Council, till a house could be procured, at a high rent.
People must have been blind not to have foreseen this event." Thus ended the fighting against the Nepaulese, this having been the second campaign in what is called the Goorkah war.
The Banturs, a jungle tribe of wood-cutters. Their habits. A village feast. We beat for deer. Habits of the spotted deer. Waiting for the game. Mehrman Singh gets drunk. Our bag. Pea-fowl and their habits. How to shoot them. Curious custom of the Nepaulese. How Juggroo was tricked, and his revenge.
I see it all now. These are Tibetans, not Nepaulese." She paused a second, then went on: "I see it all all, all. Our guide Ram Das he HAD a reason, after all, for getting us into mischief. Sebastian must have tracked us; he was bribed by Sebastian! It was HE who recommended Ram Das to Sir Ivor!" "Why do you think so?" I asked, low.
Our bag during this lucky day, including the tigress killed by my shot on the river bank, was as follows: three tigers, one boar, four deer, including the young one taken alive, eight sandpipers, nine plovers, two mallards, and two teal. We resume the beat. The hog-deer. Nepaulese villages. Village granaries. Tiger in front. A hit! a hit! Following up the wounded tiger. Find him dead.
If people have protuberances in wrong places, it of course requires a little time for the eye to become accustomed to them. It may be that a goitre is a beauty in the eyes of many a young Nepaulese swain.
Leaving Jaunpore about midnight, I reached the camp of Jung Bahadoor on the following day. The scene as we approached was in the highest degree picturesque; 5000 Nepaulese were here collected, followers, in various capacities, of the Prime Minister, whose tents were pitched at a little distance from the grove of mango-trees which sheltered his army and retainers.
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