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handles, clamps, and padlock hasps, are rivetted right 

 through the sides of the box to the inside and not 

 merely fastened by screws. Mine were fastened by 

 screws, and a lot came off in transit. What the Kash- 

 miris will ask their employer to get is the kilta. These 

 are leather-covered baskets about 2 feet high and 12 

 or 15 inches in diameter, shaped something like old 

 earthenware jars. I took a number of these and was 

 very sorry that I did so. They proved clumsy to carry, 

 held little owing to their awkward shape, could never be 

 safely locked, and wore out exceedingly fast. We used 

 the kiltas for stores and kitchen things only. The 

 lids were fastened to the body of the kilta by small 

 chains, which were continually giving way and rendering 

 the padlocks useless. This fact, coupled with their 

 general untidiness, no doubt endeared them to my Kash- 

 miris. If going again, I should use locally-made yak- 

 dans exclusively in place of kiltas. 



The list of medicines given by K. C. A. J. is a very 

 good one, but if I were fitting out for an expedition 

 myself I should make one or two changes in it. 

 Instead of vaseline I should take vinolia cream (about 

 four tins), and I should have the quinine made up into 

 three-grain pills. I should omit the pain-killer, court 

 and soap plaster, scales and glass measure, and add a 

 couple of bottles of jwari hari. This last is a first-class 

 tonic and febrifuge, and particularly useful for servants. 

 A man often comes up shivering, and says he has fever 

 and is feeling wrong, has a headache, etc. The chances 

 are he has had a chill, or else is merely wanting to 

 shirk. In either case a dose of jwari hari can do no 



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