"The Taking of Lungtungpen" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on April 11, 1887. It follows four British soldiers in Burma who capture a dacoit stronghold named Lungtungpen while in the nude.
In this illustration from the 1896 edition of Soldier Tales, Private Mulvaney and a group of naked soldiers fight the dacoits; Mulvaney finds "There was a melly av a sumpshus kind for a whoile."
See another illustrationIllustration: Archibald Standish Hartrick; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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