Chapter VI.

Return to India--Attached to Foreign Office--Imperial assemblage at Delhi--Almorah--Appointed to Manipur--Journey to Shillong--Cherra Poojee--Colonel McCulloch--Question of ceremony 54

Start for Manipur--March over the hills--Lovely scenery--View of the valley--State reception--The Residency--Visitors 60

Visit the Maharajah--His ministers--Former revolutions--Thangal Major 69

Manipur--Early history--Our connection with it--Ghumbeer Singh--Burmese war 78

Ghumbeer Singh and our treatment of him--Nur Singh and attempt on his life--McCulloch--His wisdom and generosity--My establishment--Settlement of frontier dispute 88