CHAPTER I

A FRONTIER POST PAGE Our first view of the Himalayas--Across India in a troop train--A scattered regiment--An elephant-haunted railway--Kinchinjunga--The great Terai Jungle--Rajabhatkawa--In the days of Warren Hastings--Hillmen--Roving Chinese--We arrive at Buxa Road--Relieved officers--An undesirable outpost--March through the forest--The hills--A mountain road--Lovely scenery--Buxa Duar--A lonely Station--The labours of an Indian Army officer--Varied work--The frontier of Bhutan--A gate of India--A Himalayan paradise--The fort--Intrusive monkeys--The cantonment--The Picquet Towers--The bazaar--The cemetery--Forgotten graves--Tragedies of loneliness--From Bhutan to the sea 1