I was nearly omitting to remark that the Raj Mahal hills are inhabited by a tribe of Aborigines. They are a fine race of men, and hire themselves out in gangs for work at the factories and all kinds of cultivation.

Among the hills are many fertile vales, comprising two or three hundred acres of the richest black soil which has never been cultivated, perhaps, since the creation. Parts of these vales, especially the more swampy, are cultivated by a still more superior race of hill people, who pay for an extent of land equal to a hundred acres only a goat a year and a little jaggery. They are all sportsmen, and particularly expert with the bow and arrow.

12th. Reached the city of Raj Mahal at about 5 o'clock, where Bateman's elephants had already arrived.

Here I found a large detachment of invalids homeward bound from different corps. They occupied about fifty boats, and comprised about four hundred

men.

Although late in the day, I took a look at the ruins. They are the most massively built native work I ever saw, and are entirely overgrown with jungle.

Here is also a burial-ground for Europeans, and seemed to contain a great number of tombs.

The inhabitants of Raj Mahal appear to be most

squalid and unhealthy, and had a kind of cadaverous bronze colour. How can they be otherwise, residing in such a place as its depths are, teeming with malaria from the rankest vegetation and with the least circulation of air conceivable ?

13th. Started in the morning on Bateman's elephant for Peer Pahar, a village extending I should think fully three miles.

Passed a few dilapidated buildings and a bridge cased with stone. The body of it seemed to be built of large shingle, oval shaped, each one weighing about eight or ten maunds, embedded in strong mortar and apparently imperishable. imperishable. The bridge was quite overgrown with jungle springing from the parapets on both sides.

Where the village opened to the landscape a beautiful view was obtained. It was a sea of grass jungle extending to the foot of the hills, which appeared about a mile off.

The hills were beautifully lit up by the morning sun, and the sameness of the immense expanse of grass was diversified by small bushes that marked the different lines of small nullahs which intersected the immense plain. These nullahs are outlets of the jheels that extend along the plain at the foot of the hills.

Put up some deer and killed a doe, also sprang some few chickore and black partridge, but did not.

bag very many. Reached the boats about 12 o'clock. In the evening took the dogs out and shot several chickore and black partridge.

14th. Started for Koddje, an uninhabited factory close to the foot of the hills.

The dak road runs through one of the most extensive jungles imaginable, the abode of the rhinoceros and tiger. Saw a herd of deer, a few pigs and peacocks, and came on the remains of a buffalo.

When within two miles of the factory I was directed by the descent and hovering of vultures to a deep jungle by the side of a stagnant nullah, and beating it up, found a fresh carcase of a buffalo.

The elephant gave notice of something on foot, passed the carcase and discovered the footmarks of a large tiger. After beating about for some quarter of an hour I noticed some tall grass moving, and soon getting a peep at his majesty I fired. The shot told, but did not stop him. Nevertheless I felt confident he was well hit. After a little further pursuit we found ourselves in his immediate proximity. When we perceived him he was down on his side, and evidently severely wounded.

Having halted and sketched him from the back of my pad elephant, and feeling sure he was utterly disabled, I dismounted and treated him as I loved him.