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is kept continually going the European can obtain 

 no sleep, but tosses about restlessly on his couch, 

 and gets up in the morning feeling as weary, tired, 

 and overcome with lassitude as when he laid down. 

 This want of rest is more trying to our soldiers 

 than any privation or fatigue they may experience 

 during their sojourn in tropical climates ; and of late 

 years officers commanding regiments have been em- 

 powered by the Indian Government to employ coolies 

 to keep the punkahs going day and night during the 

 hot months, which has been found to have an ex- 

 tremely salutary effect. One day I was superintend- 

 ing the manufacture of a batch of " goorakoo " * for 

 my hookah, according to a recipe I obtained from one 

 of the retainers of Mah-rajah Chundalal, the late 

 Dewan of the Deccan, when Chineah came with the 



* Goorakoo, from the Sanscrit word "goor," sugar, and the 

 Telegoo " akoo," a leaf, is the compound used in the hookah. 

 The following is the best recipe I ever met with : " Take of 

 tobacco four seers (16 Ibs.), common treacle four seers, wood- 

 apple (feronia elephantum) half a seer, preserved apples, plan- 

 tains or pineapple, half a seer, raisins half a seer, and * gool- 

 gund ' (conserve of roses) half a seer. Pound these ingredients 

 well together in a large wooden mortar, adding cardamums, 

 sandal-wood, otto of roses, and spikenard, according as you want 

 it more or less scented. When it is well mixed, and has assumed 

 the consistency of a thick paste, add a seer of dried rose-leaves, 

 then put it in an earthen pot, the mouth of which must be made 

 perfectly air-tight by being waxed over, and bury it for three 

 months, after which it is ready for use. 



