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not leave his village. It is strange the amount of faith 

 the natives have in the medical knowledge of a " sahib." 

 I believe the English missionaries, who mostly know some- 

 thing of medicine, do a great deal of good in this way. A 

 veterinary surgeon told us he was once asked to attend a 

 native suffering from severe illness, and declined, as it was 

 a very serious case, and there was a regular doctor within 



A CAMP ON THE ROOF. 



reach ; explaining that he was a doctor of animals, not of 

 men. The sick man begged him to prescribe, saying that 

 " if he doctored horses who could not talk, it would be a 

 comparatively easy thing to cure a man able to explain his 

 ailments ! " Our path from here led up the bed of a 

 torrent. At the top we pitched our tents in a rice-field 

 above the village of Nagin. 



