[ Blooming Press, Mooltan, India. ] Tabular itinerary of 'March of the Connaught Rangers. | From Mooltan to Chaubuttia near Raniket | 66 Marches. 716 Miles.', and 'From Moradabad to Shahjahanpur. | 9 Marches 104 1/8 Miles.' Signed 'J. D. P. | T. M.'

Printed on one side of piece of 50 x 32 cm wove paper. In good condition, lightly aged and worn, with strip of blue paper from stub adhering to blank reverse. A total of 75 entries in two tables (66 in the first and 9 in the second), both arranged in eight columns, as follows: 'Probable Date of arrival. 1883.' (the only entry in this column is 'January' beside the first march), 'No. of March', 'Stations', 'Distance | Miles', 'No. of Route', 'Rivers', 'Villages', 'Remarks'. Beneath the table: 'Abbreviations, - D. B. dak-bungalow; P. O. Post-Office, R. S. railway-station; T. S. telegraph-station.' In large letters, at bottom right: 'J. D. P. | T. M.' Slug centred at foot: 'Blooming Press Mooltan, [sic]'. The tables are filled with information. For example, the first entry in the second table: '[No. of Marches] 1 | [Stations.] Gunesh Ghat | [Distance | Miles] 13 | [No of Route.] 103 | [Rivers.] Ramgunga, bridge of boats | [Villages.] Moradabad 2 1/2, Ramgunga 2 3/4 | [Remarks.] en-camping ground right bank of Kosila, road heavy, water procurable'. And the last entry in the second column: '[No. of Marches] 9 | [Stations.] Shahjahanpur | [Distance | Miles] 13 3/8 | [No. of Route.] [107] | [Rivers.] Gurra bridged | [Villages.] Buntara 6, Gurra 9. | [Remarks.] Small cantomnent & civil Station, water abundant.' Among the remarks for the fifty-second march in the first column, to Koomrala, is 'snipe shooting good'. From the papers of Colonel Edmund Alexander Grubbe (1857-c.1923), who describes the march in his journal. No item printed by the Blooming Press of Mooltan traced on either COPAC or OCLC WorldCat. The name of the press may be a joke, 'blooming' being slang for 'bloody', as in Kipling's 'When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre'.