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later on, I had the walls stitched to the Inner fly the first 



time we halted for a day. There was a spare kanat 



for enclosing the verandah, where we generally had 



our meals. Besides this I 



took as a bathroom for 



myself the sowar's pal I had 



been using in Baltistan, and 



for the servants the tent of 



the same size my men had 



used, as well as a large pal 



my wife had hired in 



Srinagar. 



In the way of servants we 

 had the two Hindustanis 

 (Hade Hosein and the 

 sweeper) we had brought 

 with us from India, Ramzana 

 my Kashmiri cook, and 

 Mahamdu. We also en- 

 gaged, in place of J amala, who n 

 wanted to leave, an Argun ^,_ 

 called Abdul Karim. The 

 Arguns are a Mahomedan 

 caste peculiar apparently to ^ 



, • 1 1 1 1 r T 1 RUPSANG, THE LaDSK SHIKARI. 



the neighbourhood ot Leh, 



and are the children of such Yarkand Mahomedan 

 traders as have married Ladak women. Our Argun 

 was a useful man, but too quarrelsome. He got on 

 badly with the other servants and deserted us at Shewl. 

 On the recommendation of Paiges, I engaged Rupsang, 

 a Ladak shikari, who, as a native of the country, would. 



