rty welcome, invited me to
breakfast, and I remained with him the two days I stopped at the
station. From this officer I learned that the regiment had left two days
before, against the Nepaulese. This was a piece of news that delighted
me much, although I had not a single thing prepared for such a campaign,
nor was it probable I could procure what was necessary, after the whole
country had been drained of cattle, &c., to supply the army. But,
notwithstanding this, in two days I was ready, so far as carriage; but,
as I could not, by any possibility, get a tent, I was obliged to
manufacture one, something like what our gipsies use, out of a
setterenge, or Indian cotton carpet.

Thus provided, I commenced my march to join the old Fogs, who had
preceded me five marches. The first day I accomplished a distance equal
to the regiment's first two days' marches. The next day I completed two
more, and was handsomely treated by an indigo-planter, in the district
of Tirhoot, where their liberality is noted. I sent on my things, the
next morning, twenty miles, and desired that they might be conveyed
twenty more, should I not reach them that night. I spent the day with my
liberal host, the planter; slept there, and, after eating a hearty
breakfast, started the next morning on horseback, my kind entertainer
having laid horses for me on the road. I overtook my things about two
miles from their destination, and put up at another indigo-planter's.
Here I met a young officer, who was also on his way to rejoin the same
division, and, as it proved after a little conversation, the same
regiment. He was very young, and seemed delicate; and, I thought, but
little calculated for such an arduous campaign as the one in prospect.
Here we regaled ourselves till next morning, when we thanked our host
for his liberality, and bade him farewell. This was the last indigo
factory on our road, and travelling without protection was attended with
some little danger, the lowlands being proverbial for murders and
robberies. We were, therefore, now obliged to proceed with caution. In
the day-time we remained in our tents, and at night slept in some hut or
temple. Neither tents nor mud walls were any safeguard against the
desperate thieves in these districts; besides, these lowlands abounded
with tigers, bears, hyaenas, wolves, jackals, &c.; and, as these had not
been much accustomed to the sight of Europeans, we could not tell how
far they might be induced to