Picturesque Nepal . gentle motioncaused by the bearers, the soft patter of theirbare feet as they shuffle along, their steadygrunting chorus, the song of birds, the hum ofinsects, the slowly moving landscape, all com-bine to produce a feeling of complete rest toboth mind and body which must be experiencedto be appreciated. And so the miles graduallyand serenely pass until a break occurs—truly abreak—for one of the palanquin poles, whichhas evidently been rotting in idleness duringthe rains, shows distinct signs of giving most circumstances and climates this typicalact of irresponsibilit
Picturesque Nepal . gentle motioncaused by the bearers, the soft patter of theirbare feet as they shuffle along, their steadygrunting chorus, the song of birds, the hum ofinsects, the slowly moving landscape, all com-bine to produce a feeling of complete rest toboth mind and body which must be experiencedto be appreciated. And so the miles graduallyand serenely pass until a break occurs—truly abreak—for one of the palanquin poles, whichhas evidently been rotting in idleness duringthe rains, shows distinct signs of giving most circumstances and climates this typicalact of irresponsibility might have led to atide of fierce invective, but already thelotus-eating atmosphere has stealthily drawnus under its spell, and, lost to the hurryingworld, we placidly wait while an expeditionis planned and carried out to a distant clumpof bamboos—waving in the wind like monsterostrich plumes—and the broken pole few miles more through fields of shimmeringcrops, and then, with an almost dramatic. in < o ?J?J< fao XH THE TERAI 47 suddenness, the road closes in, the open land-scape disappears, the sky is shut out by over-hanging trees, the balmy breeze changes into ahot oppressive stillness, and a strange heavy feel-ing seems to come over all. We have enteredthe forest of the far-famed Terai. The mentionof this region conjures up from the shades ofthe past the holy spirit of Gautama Buddha,Nana Sahib of execrated memory, and thespectre of that mighty hunter, Jung Bahadur,with an accompaniment of tigers, rogueelephants, and malaria ; and all around jungle—deep impenetrable jungle. In the neighbour-hood of the high road, however, the generalappearance of the Terai is somewhat common-place, being composed of low trees and thickscrub, and, mainly owing to the traffic whichis constantly moving to and fro, game, bothlarge and small, has been driven into thedenser parts of the forest. But this thick beltof jungle represents the first line of naturaloutworks,
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