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remain mth us ; the instant they thought 

 themselves unobserved, they would put 

 down the loads and run. I paid them re- 

 gularly and fairly, and tried all ways : by 

 the day, and they ran away ; keeping them 

 in arrears till the end of the journey, when 

 they were to be with us for some days, 

 and even then, abandoning what they had 

 already earned, they ran away. At last, I 

 found that by being very particular that 

 they had plenty to eat, and by seeing that 

 my own headman paid them ; without letting 

 Gholab's people have anything to do with 

 them, we got on better, and I think, that 

 had we remained longer in the country, we 

 should have succeeded in attaching them to 

 our party. 



They are so ground down and cheated by 

 their own rulers, and I fear also, sometimes 

 illtreated by our own countrymen, who should 

 know better, that it requires both time and 

 trouble to convince them, that they will be 

 treated justly and fairly. Upon the whole, I 

 would recommend the traveller in Cashmere 



