SERVANTS' CLOTHES 465 



For cook 



I suit. 



1 lui. 



2 pairs chaplis, with nails. 



2 pairs cow-hide socks for chapHs. 



1 pair goggles (local make). 



2 pairs puttoo socks. 



For each permanent coolie 



2 pairs chaplis, with nails. | i pair goggles (local make). 



Extra, in case of accident 



6 pairs puttoo outer socks for I 3 pairs chaplis, with nails. 



grass shoes. 3 pairs cow-hide socks for chaplis. 



3 pairs puttoo socks. | 3 pairs goggles (local make). 



The servants should be required to mend their socks 

 and chaplis as far as possible, and not to fling them away 

 the moment they begin to show signs of wear. The 

 suits may be obtained ready-made sometimes, and if not, 

 they can be made up in the course of a day. 



The goggles are required for the servants and per- 

 manent coolies when travelling over snow, as without 

 them snow blindness is certain. The men to whom 

 they are given should be warned that if, after getting 

 the goggles, they become snow-blind, it will be their own 

 fault, and they will in that case be left behind at the 

 first village. One of my permanent coolies was attacked 

 by this malady — almost certainly owing to some careless- 

 ness of his own — and I very foolishly allowed him a 

 pony to ride all the way from Hardas to Skardo. I 

 ought instead to have left him behind, as he had received 

 his goggles like the rest, and if he had used them regu- 

 larly he could not have suffered. 



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