60 THIRTY-FIVE VEARS IN THE EAST. 



the following morning, from whom I got vaccine matter 

 enough to enable me to vaccinate several other children, 

 among whom was Miss Victorine, at the harem of the general 

 The people having thus been convinced of their foolish 

 error, came in numbers to my abode ; the population of all 

 the neighbouring villages, young and old, wished also to be 

 operated on. Here again I had the opportunity of making 

 some medical and surgical experiments, obliged as I was, to 

 wait four months for the caravan of the Loanis, who were 

 purchasing indigo in that neighbourhood, to carry it to 

 Bokhara. My intention was to accompany that caravan, and 

 to continue my journey from Bokhara to my native country, 

 by crossing Russia. I learned afterwards, that after my 

 departure from Dhera, Runjeet Sing began to be indisposed, 

 and he sent messengers after me, to induce me to return, 

 but they did not overtake me. 



■From Dhera-Ghasi-Khan, I went with the caravan to 

 Dherabend, situated on the upper part of Dhera-Ismail- 

 Khan, at the foot of the mountain, where the women, 

 children, horses and sheep of the Loanis were residing 

 beneath their tents. Wishing to secure a supply of vaccine 

 matter, on my journey to Cabul and Bokhara, I endeavoured, 

 immediately on my arrival at Dherabend, to operate with 

 it ; but it was a difficult task, as the heat was excessive and 

 increasing. The Loanis, however, agreed to undergo the 

 operation as soon as they had reached the cooler regions of 

 the mountains. But during this interval the vaccine lost its 

 virtue, which I regretted, especially at Cabul, as the 

 small-pox was raging there in a most terrific manner ; so 

 that, during my four months' stay at the house of the 

 Nawaub Djubber-Khan, two of his daughters died. On my 

 request, the Nawaub ordered inquiries to be made in the 

 whole circuit of Cabul, to discover cows affected with cow- 

 pox ; but in vain. At Cabul, this operation was quite un- 

 known. At that time, I had forgotten having read somewhere 

 that vaccine matter might be procured by inoculating 

 the cows with the venomous matter taken from the small- 

 pox> and that the venom is thus turned into a remedy* 



