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They did not even admire the superb spectacle that lay beneath them as the "Albatross" flew along the river banks of the Punjab. At the base of the Himalayas there runs a marshy belt of country, the home of malarious vapors, the Terai, in which fever is endemic. But this offered no obstacle to the "Albatross," or, in any way, affected the health of her crew.
Our hunters did not remain at their bivouac longer than was absolutely necessary to swallow a hasty meal. They had been warned of the dangerous climate of the Terai, and hurrying on through it, reached the more elevated hill region before night. This animal has been usually regarded as a mere variety of the ursus arctos; but without the slightest reason.
There was no doubt of it; he had made a fresh discovery. He turned round on Badshah's neck and looked down on all India spread out beneath him. East and west along the foot of the mountains the sea of foliage of the Terai swept away out of sight. Here and there lighter patches of colour showed where tea-gardens dotted the darker forest.
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Here you and Miss Westonhaugh have been calmly planning an extensive tiger-hunt, when you have promised to be in the neighbourhood of Keitung in three weeks, wherever that may be. I suppose it is in the opposite direction from here, for you will not find any tigers nearer than the Terai at this time of year." "I do not see the difficulty," he answered.
Mounted on a stout pony, I enjoyed my scamper of sixteen miles over the wooded plains and undulating gravelly slopes of the Terai, intervening between the foot of the mountains and Siligoree bungalow, where I rested for an hour.
I'm sure my husband will be glad to take you out with him; and nobody in the whole Terai knows more about big game than he." "By Jove; how ripping," exclaimed Frank eagerly. "Would he?" "I'm sure he would. He'll be only too delighted to have someone for company. I used to go with him always, until my babies came. Now Kevin has no one but Badshah." "Badshah? Oh, yes, that ripping elephant.
After the withdrawal of the troops, the threat was modified into a seizure of the Terai lands, which the Rajah had originally received as a free gift from the British, and which were the only lucrative or fertile estates he possessed.
"Why, Mr Ramball, my friend's father has trapped scores out in the Terai." "Of course he has, sir," said Ramball. "Thank you kindly, then, sir. I'll have my pony put to and go after him at once." Ramball hurried out of the hall, and the Colonel with his young guests was about to return to the dining-room when they found that Morris and Professor Barclay were standing close behind them.
And when, down there among the mango-trees in the Terai, your lips first touched hers and your arm pressed her to your side, the joy that was yours was as the joy of the immortals."
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