This author wrote a novel in which the title character delivers some Russian maps to Mookherjee before going to find the River of the Arrow with the Dalai Lama. In one of this man's poems, the speaker notes that "Of all them 
This author wrote a novel in which the title character delivers some Russian maps to Mookherjee before going to find the River of the Arrow with the Dalai Lama. In one of this man's poems, the speaker notes that "Of all them blackfaced crew / The finest man I knew / Was our regimental bhisti," the title character. In addition to writing (*) Kim and claiming "You're a better man than I" in "Gunga Din" this man is most famous for a collection which includes stories like "Toomai  of the Elephants" and "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi." For ten points, identify this British author who wrote about Mowgli in The Jungle Book.
This author wrote a novel in which the title character delivers some Russian maps to Mookherjee before going to find the River of the Arrow with the Dalai Lama.
Joseph Rudyard {Kipling}