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bank from this contrivance, enabling it to be pulled backwards and 

 forwards. A leg is placed in each loop, the fork gripped with the 

 hands, and the passenger despatched with a shove along the rope. 

 He goes down with a rush, and is slowly pulled up on the other 

 side by men on the bank. The rope is very elastic, and the sensa- 

 tion must very much resemble what one would experience if danced 

 up and down at the end of a piece of indiarubber, like a child's 

 toy! It is undoubtedly strong, but it looks awfully weak; and 

 dancing over a torrent in the Himalayas is not exactly the same 

 thing as driving across Westminster Bridge in a brougham ! There 

 is no fear of an accident if the passengers do not let go the fork. 

 The smell of the grease burning from the friction is not agreeable, 

 I may add. 



Cookery. With the Warren pot a good deal may be done, but 

 the pie-dishes deserve notice, as they provide such an excellent 

 savoury repast. To commence one, take a dish and cover it with 

 dough all over the inside and edges. Then lay in the ingredients, 

 such as cut-up chikor, pheasants, fowls, venison, vegetables, 

 sauce, &c., and put another layer of dough over the lot, letting it 

 come well down on the edges, which should be wetted to make 

 them adhere to each other. Then, turn a second dish upside 

 down, and lay it on the first, pressing well down. Run a small 

 strip of dough all around the seam to close it well. Bake by 

 laying in the fire ashes, with some red embers on the top. It will 

 take about half to three-quarters of an hour to bake. When 

 cooked, remove the top tin and cut away. All the fragrance of the 

 ingredients will be retained and the meats tender. 



Fires do not alarm game much, if not too exposed. Even 

 markhor have come within sixty yards of the writer and his men 

 round a fire under a rock, and remained watching for some time. 

 Finally they clattered away, the darkness being too much for the 

 game or sights to be visible to him, though the shikarie declared 

 there was a good head amongst the former. Next morning some 

 were seen from the rock, and during the day a herd trooped past, 

 but the writer was elsewhere then. 



Fore-sights have been much written about and discussed. Pro- 

 bably the most suitable is what is here described. The end of the 

 bead, towards the breach, is counter-sunk with a small drill. Con- 

 sequently the bead is always black, the bluing inside the counter- 

 sinking remaining untouched after months of wear and tear. Of 



