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nent, and luminous, as quite to eclipse the other, 

 and give him the appearance of the One-eyed, and 

 his luminous orb was constantly glittering round in 

 search of fowls, or eggs, or other edibles below, or 

 of pilgrims on the mountain, who could be impressed 

 into our service by a touch of his Avhite wand. In 

 fact Kooshal did not strike me as a human being 

 at all, but rather as one of the genii who had been 

 temporarily detailed off to obey all my behests ; and 

 it was partly by his aid that I was enabled to obtain 

 admission to the Perspiring Statue. I had also with 

 me, on this excursion, Vishnu Yenayck, my Kokani 

 Brahman, shortly designated V. V., and a Portuguese 

 "Boy" and cook from Bombay, who did not at all 

 appreciate the business. 



Driving in a carriage of the Nawab's to the east 

 gate of the city wall towards Girnar, in the end of 

 January, I was there transferred to a dooly, there 

 being no carriage-road farther. This latter convey- 

 ance is by no means so luxurious as a palanquin, 

 or so convenient as a Himalayan dandi or janpan. 

 There are doolies of quite another kind; but the 

 Jiinaghar dooly was simply a square piece of flat 

 wood (with or without a cushion upon it), with sides 

 about two and a half feet long, slung from two strong 

 thick poles by four ropes. A native of the East 

 can dispose himself upon it comfortably enough cross- 

 legged or squatting, but such postures are tolerable 

 to Europeans only when practised from a pretty early 



