He said they could return to the Plains at any moment . Meantime , for such as loved mountains , yonder road might amuse . This was not all revealed in a breath , but at evening encounters on the stone threshing-floors , when , patients disposed of , the doctor would smoke and the lama snuff , while Kim watched the wee cows grazing on the housetops , or threw his soul after his eyes across the deep blue gulfs between range and range . And there were talks apart in the dark woods , when the doctor would seek herbs , and Kim , as budding physician , must accompany him . ` You see , Mister O'Hara , I do not know what the deuce-an ' all I shall do when I find our sporting friends ; but if you will kindly keep within sight of my umbrella , which is fine fixed point for cadastral survey , I shall feel much better . ' Kim looked out across the jungle of peaks . ` This is not my country , hakim . Easier , I think , to find one louse in a bear-skin . ' ` Oah , thatt is my strong points . There is no hurry for Hurree . They were at Leh not so long ago . They said they had come down from the Karakorum with their heads and horns and all . I am onlee afraid they will have sent back all their letters and compromising things from Leh into Russian territoree . Of course they will walk away as far to the East as possible -- just to show that they were never among the Western States . You do not know the Hills ? ' He scratched with a twig on the earth . ` Look ! They should have come in by Srinagar or Abbottabad . Thatt is their short road -- down the river by Bunji and Astor . But they have made mischief in the West .
So ' -- he drew a furrow from left to right -- ` they march and they march away East to XXXXX -LRB- ah !
Bunji East Hurree Karakorum Leh O'Hara West deuce-an evening twig