CHAPTER II. Benares--Cashmere Mull's house--The Chouk--The Bisheshwan
temple, and Maido Rai Minar--The Ambassador in Benares--A Rajah's
visit--The marriage of Jung Bahadoor--Review of the Nepaul rifle
regiment--Benares college.

CHAPTER III. Jaunpore--A shooting-party--Scenes in camp and on the
march--A Nepaulese dinner--Ghazipore--The Company's stud--Indian
roads--Passage of the Gograh--Jung Bahadoor's mode of despatching an
alligator.

CHAPTER IV. A picnic on the Nepaul frontier--A boar-hunt--The Terai and
its resources--Our shooting quarters--Incidents of sport--A
tiger-hunt--The great elephant exhibition of 1851--Camp Bechiacor.

CHAPTER V. March to Hetowra--Cross the Cheriagotty Hills--Scenes of the
war of 1815-16--Preparations for a wild-elephant hunt--The herd in full
cry--A breakneck country--Furious charges of wild elephants--The lost
child--Return to camp.

CHAPTER VI. March to Bhimphede--National defences--The Cheesapany
pass--Lovely scenery--Night adventure--The watch-fire--Reception at
camp--Arrival at Katmandu.

CHAPTER VII. The British residency--Houses at the temple of
Pusputnath--Unprepossessing appearance of the Newar population--Their
dress and characteristic features--Ghorkas--Temple of Pusputnath--View
from the hill above it--The temple of Bhood--Worshippers from Thibet and
Chinese Tartary--Their singular and disgusting appearance--Striking scene
in the grand square of the city of Katmandu.