100 LEAVE THE HILLS. 



of the liver or spleen prepared in the same 

 manner ; dried gall, and a particular part of 

 the bark of the apricot tree, pounded and 

 kneaded as above. The dried paste from 

 which common oil has been extracted, called 

 "poena," is also used, and lumps of this are 

 often without further preparation thrust 

 into a pod through the orifice in the skin, 

 to increase the weight. Sometimes no care is 

 taken to give the material employed in 

 filling a counterfeit pod even the appearance 

 of musk. A gentleman once showed me a 

 pod he had bought from a Puharrie at 

 Missourie ; on my telling him it was counter- 

 feit, he cut it open, and found it filled with 

 hookah tobacco. 



September 26th, was a provokingly fine 

 day, but our leave of absence was drawing 

 to a close ; so saying good-bye to Wilson 

 with regret, we turned our backs upon the 

 Snowy range, and went down to Missourie, 

 as hard as we could go= Arrived there on 

 the 30th, and in two nights more reached 

 Meerut by dak, where I had the satisfaction 



