He was a well-dressed young man, like a superior native servant; his face was broad and flat, but kindly and good-humoured.

He salaamed many times, but still said nothing.
"Ask him what he wants," I cried, turning to our fair-weather friend, the cook.
The deferential Nepaulese did not wait to be asked.

"Salaam, sahib," he said, bowing again very low till his forehead almost touched the ground.
"You are Eulopean doctor, sahib ?" "I am," I answered, taken aback at being thus recognised in the forests of Nepaul.

"But how in wonder did you come to know it ?" "You camp near here when you pass dis way before, and you doctor little native girl, who got sore eyes.

All de country here tell you is very great physician.