ONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. Arrival of Jung Bahadoor in Ceylon--Voyage to Calcutta--Rifle
practice on board the _Atalanta_--Rifle-shooting--Colonel Dhere Shum
Shere--A journey along the Grand Trunk Road of Bengal--The experimental
railway--The explosion at Benares.

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.

CHAPTER VIII. The temple of Sumboonath--View from the platform of the
temple--The valley of Nepaul and its resources--Tradition respecting
it--Entrance of the Prime Minister into Katmandu--The two kings--A
brilliant reception.

CHAPTER IX. Sketch of the career of his Excellency General Jung
Bahadoor, Prime Minister of Nepaul.

CHAPTER X. The titles of his Excellency General Jung Bahadoor
Coomaranagee in England--Extraordinary notions of the British public on
Indian affairs--Jung Bahadoor's conciliatory policy--Our unsuccessful
attempt to penetrate beyond the permitted boundaries--Dangerous position
of the Prime Minister--His philanthropic designs--Great opposition on the
part of Durbar--Native punishments--A Nepaulese chief-justice-