So I was glad you came with me to Chini, and I am glad Mahbub was close by.

The old lady she is sometimes very rude to me and my beautiful pills.' 'Allah be merciful!' said Kim on his elbow, rejoicing.

'What a beast of wonder is a Babu! And that man walked alone--if he did walk--with robbed and angry foreigners!' 'Oah, thatt was nothing, after they had done beating me; but if I lost the papers it was pretty-jolly serious.

Mahbub he nearly beat me too, and he went and consorted with the lama no end.

I shall stick to ethnological investigations henceforwards.