294 SPORTING AND 



The bazaar in the hills is (or I should 

 say was at the period of which I write) 

 a very poor and indifferent one compared 

 with those at large stations, such as 

 Cawnpoor and Delhi ; in those places you 

 can buy any article, from a pin up to a 

 new carriage, and, as to ladies dresses, or 

 cloth for gentlemen's suits, if you ex- 

 pressed a wish to see any, you would be 

 nearly smothered by the rolls they could 

 produce. I believe there are no people in 

 the world so enterprising as the natives of 

 India, and their love of money makes them 

 such persevering salesmen, that you are 

 seldom allowed to leave a shop without 

 buying things you do not require. We 

 strolled from one end of the bazaar to the 

 other, but not a thing could we see 

 tempting enough to purchase. I wished 

 to take down some little trifles from the 



