Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India . stly carrying pine-torches, streamedto our camp. Singing was kept up round the fires to a latehour by the coolies and their new friends. Thursday, 10th.—We start about nine and walk alongthe river side, scrambling over stones and rocks and withhardly a vestige of a path. After a few miles we arrive atour first rope-bridge. The river, swelled by an affluent aslarge as itself, is here very deep and rapid, flowing betweenperpendicular cliffs of considerable height. Two thick ropesof twisted b
Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India . stly carrying pine-torches, streamedto our camp. Singing was kept up round the fires to a latehour by the coolies and their new friends. Thursday, 10th.—We start about nine and walk alongthe river side, scrambling over stones and rocks and withhardly a vestige of a path. After a few miles we arrive atour first rope-bridge. The river, swelled by an affluent aslarge as itself, is here very deep and rapid, flowing betweenperpendicular cliffs of considerable height. Two thick ropesof twisted birch-twigs fastened on either side to posts on the 80 RIFLE AXD SPEAR WITH THE RAJPOOTS. cliff tops, form the footway, with thinner ones at each sideas guys. The height at which this frail-looking contrivanceswings to and fro above the roaring torrent, gives an idea ofinsecurity which it does not really possess. Alan crossedfirst, and just as he got halfway, a little black dog from theother side ran between his legs. The dogs master, thekeeper of the bridge, followed, shouting offers of assistance,. OUK FIRST ROPE EKIDGE. and skipping along the ropes like a monkey. This causedthe bridge to oscillate very disagreeably, but Alan was tooproud to accept help, for which indeed there was no neces-sity, and dog and master were after some delay sent back. It was now my turn, but no sooner had I reached themiddle when up rushed the dog as before. The footwaywas barely twelve inches wide, with a drop of some forty THE BRIDGE AXD DOG TRICK. 81 feet to the rocks and river below, and the crossing, to anovice, quite bad enough without master doggies , Alan gave me a hand across, and, arrived againon terra Jinna, we demanded an explanation from thekeeper of the bridge and dog. It did not take long todiscover that it was a trick to get money for helpingstrangers over. Both our Hindustani servants fell into thesnare, greatly to the Hillmens delight. Santan was firstup, and
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