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galow occupied about an hour and three-quarters. The 

 Jhelum was now some six or seven feet lower than 

 before, and the stream proportionably moderate. I found 

 all my baggage stowed in the bungalow, and ordered it 

 to be ready for a start on the seventeenth, intending to 

 get off myself, if possible, on the eighteenth. 



16th October. After breakfast I took boat, and went 

 first to a shawl merchant's, Mirza Mahomed Shah, and 

 purchased articles for presents to dear ones at home ; 

 then to a papier-mache shop. Coming back, I found a 

 card from Captain Tulloh, 21st P.N.I. He left to-day, 

 I understood. But as I was sitting shut up for the 

 night, and reading, I heard sounds as of an arrival, and 

 voices as of a saheb, and sure enough there was Tulloh 

 come to claim shelter, as his jan-pan broke down shortly 

 after starting. We sat long chatting over our mutual 

 excursions. 



17th October. Both of us astir early. A merchant 

 employed by Tulloh had brought his own horse to take 

 him to Ramoo, and on my mentioning a difficulty in pro- 

 curing money, he readily engaged to supply. Tulloh off, 

 I had a talk with the merchant, Samhed Shah, a most 

 respectable-looking and pleasant-mannered man. I 

 agreed to go to his shop after breakfast, and was aggra- 

 vated into buying a scarf, caps, and black choga the 

 latter not yet ready. All my baggage left this morning ; 

 Murad and party also. Abdoolah and Buddoo only 

 remain with me. Suleiman informed me that the Eajah 

 of Kopalu was here, and had received the Testaments. 

 He would like to see me, but feared the jealousy of the 

 Maharajah. 



On my arrival I had been visited by an Affghan to 

 whom I had before given ten rupees. He was, by his 

 own report and that of many testimonials apparently 



