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carriage, a two-wheeled conveyance, with a top 

 to it, drawn by a mule. 



In the evening the Amban's Tunktchi, or inter- 

 preter, arrived, bringing us a present of flour, rice, 

 sheep, wood, &c. Giving the pony-men some red 

 cloth and a few rupees for their trouble, we next 

 day sent the Amban a watch in return. We also 

 tried to induce Mahomed Unis to take one, but 

 in vain. He said he did not understand it, and 

 should not be able to make it go. 



Meanwhile the process of refitting was being 

 got through. As can be imagined, after the 

 amount of walking, our boots and chuplus 1 

 were pretty well done for indeed I had only 

 one pair of shooting-boots fit to wear, and my 

 chuplies were all in holes. We were obliged to 

 provide ourselves with the charoks or shoes of 

 the country, which are made of goat-leather, the 

 sole being of cow's skin. When the leather is 

 wet, it is put on a mould, and modelled some- 

 thing after the shape of a slipper ; but there 

 is no fit about them, and they look like a great 

 walnut-shell. The upper leather is slit down to 

 the instep, and a tape passed through a loop 



ieS) or sandals, worn in Kashmir with a leather sock, ex- 

 cellent for lightness, but which soon wear out on rough ground. 



