LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[After the Proclamation Parade]Frontispiece
[Buxa Duar]To face page 16
["The fort was built on a knoll"]" 16
[Rajput sepoys cooking]" 24
[British and Indian officers]" 24
[My double company]" 28
[My bachelor establishment]" 28
[A kneeling elephant]" 36
["The ladies of the hamlet came forward"]" 54
[Bhuttia drummers]" 54
[Chunabatti]" 56
["From my doorstep I watched them coming down the hill"]" 66
[The Deb Zimpun's prisoners]" 66
[The Durbar in Buxa]" 74
[A sambhur stag and my elephant]" 90
[Bringing home the bag]" 90
[Forest Lodge the First]" 100
[Forest Lodge the Second]" 100
["The mahout was holding up the head"]" 110
[Subhedar Sohanpal Singh]" 128
["We saw another elephant"]" 130
[The tiger's Lying in state]" 172
[The tiger's last home]" 172
["My sepoys drilling"]" 178
[Buglers and non-commissioned officers of my detachment]" 178
[The walled face of Fort Bower over the river]" 282
[The stockade and ditch of Fort Bower]" 282
[The gate with wicket open and drawbridge lowered]" 286
[Captain Balderston inside the stockade]" 286
[Bringing home the General's dinner]" 290
["I was mounted on a country bred pony"]" 296
["An elephant loaded with my stores and baggage"]" 296