This, you know, is the land of the cobra and the tiger, not to mention a few other animals and reptiles equally unpleasant in their nature.

Last night," continued the doctor, "I saw a glare in the sky off to the westward on the opposite side of the river in the direction of Meerut.

I wonder what it meant ?" "By Jove!" exclaimed Jack, "that explains something that the palanquin bearer said to me about there being so many Inglese where there are none to-day.

I could not catch his meaning, though he mentioned Meerut.

But he gave me to understand that it was not quite time yet for the uprising, which would come in a few weeks." "Those things are apt to be precipitated.