What puzzled me was the rapidity with which the necessary dispositions had been made.

On the whole, I was reassured.

If Ram Lal had been able to prepare my way at such short notice here, with two more days at his disposal he would doubtless succeed in laying me a _dak_ most of the way from Julinder to Keitung.

I will not dwell upon the details of the journey.

I reached the railroad and prepared for forty-eight hours of jolting and jostling and broken sleep.