CHAPTER V. 



The cold season. — Shooting. — March toUmballa.— Delhi.— Kurnal. — Start for 



the hills. — Arrangements for the trip Servants. — The Puharries.— 



Their good qualities. — Religion. — The Fairies. — Novel treatment of 



maladies. — The Teree Rajah. — His government. — State of the country 



A blood feud. — Puharrie equality. — Women. — Marriage. — Polyandry. — 

 Dress. — Habitations. — Supplies to be procured in the villages. — AVild 

 rhubarb, currants, raspberries, and strawberries. — Apricot orchards. — 

 Vegetables. — Wild spinach and asparagus. — Edible fern. — Morells. — 

 Mushrooms. — Hermetically sealed provisions. — Yew-bark tea. — Successful 

 sport. — " Many a slip 'twixt cup and lip." — Recall to the plains. — Feroze- 

 pore. — Commencement of the Punjab campaigns. — My brigade. — March 

 to Mooltan. — Apoplexy. — The Siege of Mooltan. 



The cold season of 1847-48 was spent plea- 

 santly at Meerut ; drill, shooting, cricket, 

 and balls, kept the station alive, and pre- 

 vented time from hanging heavy on the 

 hands even of the idlest. 



In the beginning of November, I sent off 

 my tents to Hustanapoor, where the jeels 

 are a favourite resort of wild fowl during the 

 winter months ; being an old bed of the 



