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service in the Punjab dialect. The missionary and his 

 wife are the only resident English. It must be very 

 lonely for her ; but she says that teaching the women 

 reading, needlework, &c., fully occupies all her time. 



December Vltli. — This bungalow is very comfortable, 

 with larger and better rooms than the Lahore hotel. 

 But it harbours a peculiarly large and venomous breed of 

 mosquitoes. I hardly slept a wink. Somehow they had 

 managed to get through the mosquito curtains, and the 

 bites of. those within, and the clamorous humming of the 

 less- fortunate insects outside, kept me awake till dawn. 



The district police officer passed through this 

 morning on a tour of inspection, -and came to pay us an 

 early call. 



He tells me that Pind-dadan-khan is notorious for 

 the size and enterprise of its mosquitoes. Noio they are 

 bearable. But in the hot season all attempts at 

 protection are absolutely useless. Two of the larger 

 mosquitoes take it in turns to hold up the curtains, 

 whilst the remainder go in and feast on the victim ! 



( lur baggage went off on camels at daybreak to 

 Saidan Shah — a march of about fourteen miles. The 

 shikaris walked, but Santan and the ayah had a camel 

 to themselves, and were seated on either side in panniers 

 balanced across its back, like two babies on a seaside 

 donkey. A rich Nawab (native gentleman) of the district 



