THE "PUGBI" BEAUTIFIES. Gl 



I regret to say, has not yet learned the use it should be 

 put to. His English ammunition boots and stockings 

 are also for show, not use, and when real work commences 

 are at once discarded. Rahman is always the " man of 

 the world," and dresses in garments that give you the 

 idea he is fully prepared to walk or ride fifty miles 

 at a moment's notice, but he never wears superfluous 

 finery. 



It is astonishing how the turban, or " pugri " as it is 

 called in India, adds to a native's personal appearance. It 

 is certainly a most becoming headdress. The Kashmiris 

 wind it round a small quilted skull-cap, with a pointed 

 end, like an abbreviated fool's-cap. I had always imaoined 

 Rahman to be at least six feet high, and rather picturesque- 

 looking, but one day he happened to pass us with his 

 turban off, and only this little pointed cap on his close- 

 shaven head : I hardly recognized him. He was certainly 

 not over five feet six, and the disillusion was similar to 

 the shock one gets when one first meets on foot, and 

 in kennel clothes, the smart, dapper huntsman, only seen 

 before in all the glories of scarlet at the cover side. 



We remained two days at Halkin Galli, arid scoured 

 the hills around for barasingh, but without success. There 

 were not even any recent marks of them. Khaira came 

 in one morning with a story of two enormous black bears, 

 so close that he could have hit them with his stick, but 



