"See, all of you, that you have plenty of ball cartridges."
The order was needless, for we were all well supplied; and, five minutes
later, a brief and distant leave-taking followed, and, shouldering our
pieces, we set off, through the hot afternoon sunshine, to try and
follow the track to the road. This reached, it would be one steady
descent to Rajgunge, but, as we afterwards owned, not one of us believed
that we should reach it alive.
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Note 1. Budmashes are outlaws, footpads.
Note 2. Hathees are elephants.