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clined to go; but he said that, though he was not 

 afraid of the Tcala pant, or dark water, yet he would 

 rather not go with me then, because he had made 

 Ion" enough journey from his own country, and seen 

 enough wonders, for the first time. Several dis 

 tinguished persons on our way down wished to take 

 him into their employment; but one day he came to 

 me crying, with his hand upon his heart, saying that 

 there was something there which made him ill, and 

 that he would die unless he got back to his own 

 pahar, or mountains. He could not have heard of 

 the heimwh of the Swiss, and I was struck by his 

 reference to the mountains in particular. There was 

 evidently no affectation in the feelings he expressed ; 

 so, knowing his wonderful cleverness as a traveller, 

 but taking various precautions for his safety, which 

 was likely to be endangered by his confidence in man- 

 kind, I sent him back from Bombay alone to the 

 Himaliya, and have been glad to hear of his having 

 reached Kotgarh, without any mishap, where, I am 

 sure, the kind-hearted Mr Eebsch would see that he 

 was safely convoyed to his little village high up 

 among the great mountains. 



Thus reinforced by a small but mighty man, we 

 started from Shaso at five in the morning of the 4th 

 July, and I managed to reach Pu at seven that night, 

 more dead than alive. The distance was only four- 

 teen miles, and the two first and the last two were so 

 easy that I was carried over them in my dandy ; but 



