Ah this time the dusky Punjabis have been gathering in_ increasing It is quite plain that the majority ave spectators, but among them ale figures grotesquely tur-Vaned in white, an ultra-modern light overcoat concealing the rest of thor costume save for white trouser-
By thia time all that is to be marily seen has been seen, and our weight from leg to leg di as we stand waiting Just then a swarthy N.C.O, beckons us and with Chesterfieldian courtesy directs us to a seat, No sooner have we sunk into this with sigh of satisfaction, than from behind the white, boardlike screen come the tentative notes of pipes and the thudding of strange drums, and the regimental musicians favo us with a pleasing selection, Tt ly a march, and scarcely is it in fall swing than there troop upon the scene the officers of the Regiment and their guests, the former in the regulation mess uniform of sear-Jet and black, the latter in conventional dinner dress. There is some fussing over some object, and then we learn what the electric cables, the square, white contraption, and certain other paraphernalia which we earlier thought were the accessories of strange rites, really are, There is a familiar hissing sound, and the picture enfolds itself—the' coming. Of the various units to Shanghai, the warships in the harbour, the Pun-Jabis on the march, and a host of other interesting scenes. These exhausted, there is a hurried conference between one who is evidently Master of Ceremonies and a sergeant-major. A scurrying hither fand thither, a hasty gathering of the firewood, and night becomes day by virtue of the skill of attendants who keep on scattering kerosene over the Dbinzing maggot:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.