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interior arrangements. Before its completion any 

 travellers in need of medical or surgical care fared badly, 

 without solid walls and roof to shelter them. Under the 

 casual care of chance friends, suffering probably from 

 the great change in climate, there was little chance of 

 recovery if overtaken by any of the diseases contracted 

 in the plains, or disabled by any of the accidents likely 

 to happen to wanderers in strange lands. Now they 

 can be sure of excellent attendance and advice, comfort- 

 able quarters, coolness, and the best of food and medi- 



Cottage Hospital, Srinagar 



cine. Such an institution, established in such distant 

 parts, is a monument of energy and organisation, and all 

 who benefit by this real haven of rest will feel very 

 grateful to those on whom the labour and work of such 

 an undertaking have fallen. 



With the last bars to a happy visit removed, none 

 need fear to face the small difficulties of the expedition. 

 During my wanderings I met a lady of more energy 

 than strength, who, quite unable from bad health to 



