190 Brigade- Surgeon J. E. T. Aitchisou's NoUs on Products 



facture large quantities of butter and dried oxygal. The 

 butter is at once clarified to permit of its keeping, and is 

 put into prepared goat-skins for transport ; it is usually thus 

 conveyed to the nearest market-town, and there is repacked 

 in huge jars for further transport. Upon the return of these 

 nomads late in autumn there is a great trade done by them, 

 as they pass through or in the vicinity of any large town, in 

 sheep and goats ; lamlj, kid, and goat skins ; clarified butter, 

 and dried oxygal; in some manufactured woollen goods, as 

 blanketing, carpets, felts, and clothing, the result of the in- 

 dustry of the women whilst in their summer encampments. 

 The trade in sheep wool and the fine hair of the goat is 

 mostly done during early summer with middlemen, who go to 

 the great nomad encampments to collect the produce, a 

 very different state of things to what it was in Ferrier's time, 

 as the country is now overrun with middlemen purchasing 

 up products, especially for the purchase of fine wools and 

 manufactured goods, as carpets. The coarse goats' hair and 

 coarser wools are wholly used up by the nomads themselves 

 in their various necessities, as in clothing materials, blanket- 

 ing for tents, felts, ropes, and such like. 



Shersham, shan^kam — Rape, Brassioa campestrls, 

 var. NAPUS. 



Shikatn — /*.5C.i — the abdomen. 



Shlkain-pdra — [a portion (medicine) fortlie abdomen] ; 

 the seeds of Plantago species, a well-known 

 remedy in dysenteric affections. 



Shikar — ^'.5C^ — pi'ey, game. 



Shikari — ^jS.^ — a hunter. 



Shilim — (^.X^ — shilm — resin, gum-resin, guni, mastich. 



Shilim-bdrzat, and shiUm-i-hddra-kema, the gum- 

 resin of Ferula galbaniflua. 



Shilim-i-chlrkha — the gum-resin of Microrhynchus 



SPINOSUS. 



Shilim~i-pista — the resin, or mastich of Pistacia 



species. 

 Shiluii-i-za }■(! -al II- — the gum of the Apricot, Prunus 



Armeniaca. 



