Carabine et lance avec l'Rajpoots : être le récit d'un voyage d'hiver et de sport dans le nord de l'Inde . descend avec la rivière, jusqu'à vers le soir, quand il y a une raideur de tirer vers le haut le hillsdividing-nous de la vallée dans laquelle la ville de Chamba issituated. Depuis le sommet nous obtenons un lointain il buriedin de peep, les montagnes, et surmontée de la Maharajas palace.une descente raide et poussiéreux nous emmène vers le bas pour Manjere, wherethere est un bon bungalow entouré de palmiers. Il isa belle nuit chaude, et je revel en elle. 27 novembre.-c'est un matin ensoleillé, lumineux et wegradually descendre à semi-tropical

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Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India . descends with the river, till towards evening, when there is a stiff pull up the hillsdividing us from the valley in which the town of Chamba issituated. From the top we get a distant peep of it, buriedin the mountains, and surmounted by the Maharajas palace.A steep, dusty descent takes us down to Manjere, wherethere is a good bungalow surrounded by palm trees. It isa lovely warm night, and I revel in it. November 27th.—It is a bright sunny morning, and wegradually descend to semi-tropical vegetation again. Clus-ters of palms, bananas and fig-trees, lie in sheltered nooksalono- the river, and the cottages have lost their Alpinelook, although Ave are still some 3, 000 feet above sea level. 114 RIFLE AND SPEAR WITH THE RAJPOOTS. The road is very picturesque, first through two or threepretty little villages, then ascendiug, cut out of the cliffsome hundred feet above the river bed. It was a long dusty march, and we were both tired, perhaps more from the unaccustomed heat, when we reached. A QUAIKT LIi WOODEN BKIEGE AT IHAMBA. the top of the pass above Chamba. From here the Maha-rajas great white palace looked cpiite near, although wehave yet some six or seven miles to go. We were pleasedto see in the immediate foreground two horses sent to meetus. Mine is a smart, skittish little beast, with a decidedlyIrish eye. As the road is only some four feet broad, and ARRIVAL AT CHAMBA 115 hangs unprotected over the precipice, I suddenly discoverthat I am not so very tired after all: yet when a dandy, which had been thoughtfully sent for me, arrived, I wasunspeakably thankful to seat myself in it. It was nightfall when we reached the outskirts of thetown. The road winds through gardens, past a smalltemple built in the middle of a piece of water, and thenthrough long narrow lanes overhung by trees, and shut inby dense vegetation. At last we come out in the open, andby the light

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