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Taking the train for the Naga Hills |
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Repacked for the Hills. Went to Cook & drew _30 & got tickets for self & bearer to Manipur Road. Bearer lent by Annandale to replace the Ganeshkhind bearer whom I had sent back (an excellent bearer whom I was sorry to lose). Taxied to Sealdah Station for the 4.36 p.m. train (Darjeeling mail). On arrival at station I found that the boy had forgotten my cabin trunk. I dashed back to the Museum in a taxi (some miles distance), captured the trunk & flew back to the station & just caught the train, my things being flung in anyhow & anywhere. Never expected to get the train; awful rush. Crossed the Ganges at 8.10 p.m. River very wide, very effective by moonlight. Dead flat country; palms, bamboo, bits of jungle & paddy-fields. |
