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Updated: June 7, 2025
I've never seen him before. He's awfully good-looking." "Oh, that is I suppose you mean Major Dermot," replied the girl, feeling suddenly shy. "Major Dermot? Who's he? What is Oh, is it the wonderful hero from the Terai, the man you told me so much about when you came up?" "Yes; he is the same." "Really? How interesting! He's so distinguished-looking. When did he come up?
But while in it he used to spend all his spare time in the marvellous jungle that extended to his very door. The great Terai Forest stretches for hundreds of miles along the foot of the Himalayas, from Assam through Bengal to Garwhal and up into Nepal.
A helmet in brush is the next noisiest thing to a circus band, so it is always well to have, also, a double terai. This is not something to eat. It is a wide felt hat, and then another wide felt hat on top of that. It is not, however, a good contraption to go in all day when the sun is strong. As underwear you want the lightest Jaeger wool. Doesn't sound well for tropics, but it is an essential.
It was evident that the reputation which his large section of the Terai Forest bore as being well managed and efficiently run was not due to him and that somebody more capable had the handling of the work.
The Mikirs who inhabit what is known as the "Bhoi" country, lying to the north of the district, consume a good deal of opium, but it must be remembered that they reside in a malarious terai country, and that the use of opium, or same other prophylactic, is probably beneficial as a preventive of fever. The Khasis, like other people of Indo-Chinese origin, are much addicted to gambling.
A tall young man in brown holland and a battered terai stood above on the grassy brink. "Oh, beg pardon," he continued. "Took you for old Gilly, you know." He snapped the empty shells from his gun, and blew into the breech, before adding, "Would you mind, then? That is, if you're bound up for Stink-Chau. It's a beastly long tramp, and I've been shooting all afternoon."
There was a man in a wide, soft felt hat with the malaria of the Terai in the hollows under his eyes; there was a Church Missionary with an air of charity and forbearance, and the bushy-eyed colonel of a native regiment, looking vigilant against ridicule, with his wife, whose round, red little face continually waxed and waned in a smile of true contentment.
Far in front lay the gloomy belt of Terai, or border forest, here called the morung, where the British territories had their extreme limit in that direction. Behind this belt, tier on tier, rose the mighty ranges of the majestic Himalayas, towering up in solemn grandeur from the bushy masses of forest-clad hills till their snow-capped summits seemed to pierce the sky.
After my return from the Terai, I was occupied during the month of April in preparations for an expedition to the loftier parts of Sikkim.
They are a mild, inoffensive people, industrious for Orientals, living by annually burning the Terai jungle and cultivating the cleared spots; and, though so sequestered and isolated, they rather court than avoid intercourse with those whites whom they know to be kindly disposed.
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