220 Brigade- Surgeon J. E. T. Aitchison's Notes on Prodvxts 



Water-melon — the fruit of Citrullus vulgaris. 

 Wax — mum — in this country there is little or none ; 



it is imported into Herat from the great forest 



districts. 

 Well — chd. 



The wells in this country are mere shallow shafts, from 

 9 to 12 feet. I never came across a thoroughly con- 

 structed well in which the shaft was built of masonry as 

 in India, nor did I meet with any well having an apparatus 

 attached to it for drawing up or raising water. 



Whdgar — the indigenous Walnut, Juglans regia, a 



Kuram Valley name. 

 Wheat — Triticum vulgare. 

 Wheatling — Arenaria holosteoides. 

 Wheel — chai'kh, cha7'kha ; a spinning-wheel, charkhl. 

 Whey — obtained during the manufacture of cheese, 



ab-i-panlr ; during the manufacture of dried 



oxygal, do-hariit. 

 Whip — chahuk, Jcamchin — 



The handles of these are usually made from the wands of 

 Tamarix gallica, or of the Almond, Prunus Amygdalus, 

 owing to the superstitious belief that a snake will fly from 

 these woods if the whip is thrown at them. 



White Ants — Termes species. 



White Tamarisk — the tree or shrub so called by 

 Europeans is not a Tamarisk at all, but is of 

 the natural order Chenopodiace^, Haloxylon 

 Ammodendron; it is the td, or tdr-gaz, the 

 green or juicy Tamarisk, of the natives. 



Wild — indigenous, dashtl. 



Willow — Salix species. 



Wind — hdcl. 



Wind-mill, asld-hdd. 



Wine — shardh, slirdh — 



The wine of the country is manufactured in the large 

 towns. I have no information as to whether there is any 



