I20 THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE EAST. 



he obtained satisfaction. After a long and vain expecta- 

 tion, he early one morning ascended a fig-tree, declaring 

 that he would not leave that tree before be got reparation 

 for the injustice which had been done him. When Jewahir 

 Sing was informed of the fact, he despatched a soldier to 

 compel the Brahmin to descend. The Brahmin, rather 

 than comply, stabbed himself in the tree ; upon which, 

 Jewahir commanded the faqueer Noor-oo-Deen to order 

 the jerahs ( native surgeons ) to cure the wound. On the 

 same day I was by accident coming from the durbar, 

 which that day was held in the fortress, and met the 

 faqueer, when we went together in the Goolab Khana, at 

 the Hazooree Bagh, where the faqueer had his business- 

 during the day. There we found one of the jerahs, who 

 reported that the cure of the Brahmin was impossible, the 

 bowels having protruded from his body, and could not be 

 replaced. While I was inquiring what was the subject of 

 their conversation, the faqueer related to me the particulars, 

 and requested me to accompany the native surgeon to see 

 the patient for a moment, adding, that he wished me to 

 do my best to restore him to health. I went there, and 

 found him in a small garden before the city gate ( Tunksallee 

 Derwazeh.) The other jerahs had already given him up as 

 a lost man, and retired. On his abdomen I saw the protrud- 

 ing intestines, which, although unhurt, were of a bluish 

 colour, by having been six hours exposed to the heat of the 

 summer in that position. The patient, a lean man of about 

 fifty years, was in the full possession of his senses. I sent for 

 my instruments, and enlarged the narrow opening of the 

 muscle and the peritoneum, so that I could replace the 

 bowels, made a gastroraphy, and joined the wound. All 

 this was done in a few minutes. During the operation, the 

 patient said slowly " tenn, tenn, tenn," ( saint, saint, saint ), 

 The assisting jerah gave me the title of ustad ( master ). 

 After this, the patient was troubled by an annoying hic- 

 cup, which lasted for three days, and then he recovered. I 

 presented him to the faqueer Noor-oo-Deen, and the mini- 

 ster. The latter did his best to appease him, and ordered 



