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Excerpt from The Adventures of the Panjáb Hero Rájá Rasálu, and Other Folk-Tales of the Panjáb: Collected and Compiled From Original Sources
It was under these circumstances that I first made ac quaintance with the hero of the following legends, Rajé. Rasalu. As the sun was rapidly declining I waited then to hear no more, but having enjoyed our brief halt, we all started on our return to Ghazi, I on foot, and my little boy of five, well armed with a bow and arrow for incautious tigers, in a small native bridal doolie, which was borne on the shoulders of a couple of stout villagers. Through rough rocks of schist or limestone, and by many a rugged track, our path conducted us down the steep declivities of Mount Gandgarh, affording us near at hand beautiful sun ny views of valley and precipice and lofty Sikh fortress, and revealing far away the stately Indus, the spacious Peshawur Valley, and the still more distant hills of Kabul and Bajour, where human life is cheap, and where men go armed to the teeth. High over our heads in the pure aether wheeled a golden-crested eagle, and in the lower atmosphere ?oated kites and hawks. Sometimes a brace of black partridges, startled by our approach, went whirring their noisy wings down into the lower copses, or a painted jay ?ew by, or a pair of doves spotted and rose-coloured, or some blue pigeons lingered to gaze at us, or a Chatterbox peered from the gloom of a thicket, or a ?ight of excited starlings swept through the radiant air. Among these wild upland glens, where homesteads are few, solitary and scattered.
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