Our boys in India . else in the world, but hurledtogether. Great domes and circling crowns, rising in suchmasses as to dispel the impression of their real height, thoughmost of them were over twenty thousand feet above the Paul in his dandi had been higher up than the sum-mit of Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Europe. As soon as the sun rose, the distant rumbling and lowgrumbling of glaciers, and the occasional thundering of ava-lanches and land-slides, filled the air with an incessant din,that grew louder and louder as the day wore on. The servant who accompanied them from Delhi ha
Our boys in India . else in the world, but hurledtogether. Great domes and circling crowns, rising in suchmasses as to dispel the impression of their real height, thoughmost of them were over twenty thousand feet above the Paul in his dandi had been higher up than the sum-mit of Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Europe. As soon as the sun rose, the distant rumbling and lowgrumbling of glaciers, and the occasional thundering of ava-lanches and land-slides, filled the air with an incessant din,that grew louder and louder as the day wore on. The servant who accompanied them from Delhi had leftearlier than they in the morning; but he had started earlier YOU SHALL BE MY HARL-SAHLB. 279 every morning for several clays, only to appear again at , however, it was long before sundown that he hurried to Dhondaram, and anxiously said, Their cooliesare setting up the tents on the heights just below. Theyremain there to-night, and go on by way of the clay cara-vansarai in the THE CAMP ON THE HEIGHTS. Tis well, replied Dhondaram; and a strange low fireseemed lurking in his eyes. We must reach the caravan-sarai, and sleep there to-night. How many are there? andwho is the party ? There are two white men. He is one; and the otheris from Bombay, with a young man who does not speak thelanguages. Their escort is five Rajpoots; their company,twenty servants. 28o OUR BOYS IN INDIA. Tis well, said Dhondaram again. Were the escortfive hundred Rajpoots, or five regiments of British soldiers,what would it avail? Why should I continue flying like acursed sore over a mans body ? Move on ! Move on rapidly!It will be long after dark, and the way is dangerous. The train began again to move : and just as the sun wassetting, they passed the heights that the servant had spokenof, where a large European tent was pitched; and at a littledistance, on the ground, sat a dozen or more native train moved a little below the heights; but Dhondaramleft it
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