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and in the course of ten minutes, we hauled 

 him out on the far side of the stream. 

 Leaving two hands to take his skin, we went 

 back to a lovely spot, in what I called my 

 park, where we breakfasted by the side of a 

 beautifully clear and cool rivulet. 



Reaching Koolon in the evening, we found 

 our camp pitched, and R. out, looking for 

 bears ; he came in soon after us, having had 

 a shot at an old fellow. From this place, 

 there is a good road to the head of one of 

 the vallies, that run up from Palgham, but 

 the rascals all swore that they knew of 

 none ; and we only discovered it from the 

 shepherds, when we afterwards ascended the 

 Palgham Valley. No Cashmerian ever 

 sticks at a falsehood, either on great or 

 trifling occasions ; indeed, upon the arrival 

 of the coolies at the place where we parted 

 from our Tartars, one of the Maharajah's 

 Sepoys, who had accompanied us from 

 Drass Fort, told us in their presence, " that 

 we had now arrived amongst a nation of 

 liars ; and that not even the Maharajah 



