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tinually going the European can obtain no sleep, but 

 tosses about restlessly on his couch, and gets up in 

 the morning feeling as weary, tired, and overcome 

 with lassitude as when he laid down. This want of 

 rest is more trying to our soldiers than any privation 

 or fatigue they may exj^erience during their sojourn 

 in tropical climates ; and of late years officers com- 

 manding regiments have been empowered by the 

 Indian Government to employ coolies to keep the 

 punkahs going day and night during the hot months, 

 which has been found to have an extremely salutary 

 effect. One day I was superintending the manu- 

 facture of a batch of "goorakoo"* for my hookah, 

 according to a recipe I obtained from one of the re- 

 tainers of Mah-rajah Chundalal, the late Dewan of 

 the Deccan, when Chineah came with the intelli- 

 gence that a tiger had struck down a bullock be- 

 longing to some Mulchers about five miles distant, 



* Goorakoo, from the Sanscrit word " goor," sugar, and tlie 

 Telegoo " akoo," a leaf, is the compound used in the hookah. 

 The following is the best recipe I ever met with : — " Take of 

 tobacco four seers, (16 lbs.,) common treacle four seers, wood- 

 apple (feronia clephantum) half a seer, preserved apples, plan- 

 tains or pineapple, half a seer, raisins half a seer, and ' goolgund' 

 (conserve of roses) half a seer. Pound these ingredients well 

 together in a large wooden mortar, adding cardamums, sandal- 

 wood, otto of roses, and spikenard, according as you want it 

 mor» or less scented. When it is well mixed, and has assumed 

 the consistency of a thick paste, add a seer of dried rose-leaves, 

 then put it in an earthen pot, the mouth of which must be 

 made perfectly airtight by being waxed over, and bury it for 

 three months, after which it is ready for use." 



