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you if you do this. Most oilman's stores and liquor you can buy at Salig 

 Barn's in Dalhousie, but it is advisable to take from down country some 

 tinned steel (or aluminium) cooking pots, a very light small sheet-iron 

 oven (13" diam. at most), such as can be bought in the bazar, a Warren's 

 broiler or other frying-pan; the Warren uses up more lard, but is best on a 

 camp fire, as the food is not smoked ; a camp kettle and a fitted tiffin basket 

 padlocked, containing plates, &c, of enamelware, and other dining and tea- 

 kit. I will say more about outfit later on ; now as to route. 



From Bombay to Pathankot, via Delhi, Umballa and Amritsar, you travel 

 either via Ahmedabad and B. B. & C.I., or via Agra and G. I. P. This latter 

 route is longer, but I am not sure that it is not preferable, as it enables you 

 to avoid the sadly deteriorated refreshment-rooms at Ahmedabad and on 

 the E.-M. By. 



If you decide to go by the B. B. & C. I., then with a judiciously-stocked 

 tiffin basket you leave Bombay (let us suppose, on Monday) at 21-30 o'c. 

 Next day (Tuesday), breakfast at Ahmedabad, ice and soda can be bought on 

 the train, dine at Nana ; next day (Wednesday), breakfast at Bewari Junction, 

 reach Delhi at 13-40. Time for a tub and tea at Kellner's rooms. Leave Delhi 

 at 15-20 by D.-U.-K. train (same platform) ; dine at Kurnal, 18-25 to 53, 

 reach Umballa Cantonment at 20-43. Change to N.-W. By. same station, 

 21-13 reach Amritsar at 3-10 (or there is a later train from Umballa that 

 reaches Amritsar about 9f in the morning), leave Amritsar by Pathankot 

 train 10-10, arrive Pathankot 15 o'c. (Thursday). 3 



On arrival at Pathankot, the Tonga Agent should be promptly interviewed, 

 and if you have written to him some ten days beforehand, you may hope to 

 find a tonga ready to take you and some of your belongings to Dunera, 28 

 miles in 4J hours ; also ekkas (one-horse vehicles) for your servants and heavy 

 kit, which latter you should get from the goods office without delay. Ekkas 

 take 6f hours. Start for Dunera as soon as you can, for the road is rather 

 " jumpy " by day in certain parts, and in darkness would not be quite safe. 

 Have nothing to do with private contractors at Pathankot, for they will 

 solemnly swear to send your kit up to Dalhousie in less than no time, and 

 when you have prepaid them, will suit their own convenience about ful- 

 filling the contract. I had a heavy tent I entrusted to one Mowla Buksh to 

 send up to Dalhousie from Pathankot on a camel ; the " Umming-bird " 

 and the tent reached Dalhousie, after a journey of 51 miles, in the record 

 time of 12 days. Happily, I was in no hurry, but I might have 

 been. The Bailway refreshment-rooms at Pathankot are better than the 

 T. B. there. Tongas can only go as far as Dunera, but ekkas can 

 go through to Dalhousie. At Dunera there is a good travellers' 



*We travelled in a reserved second compt. and our carriage was cut off at Umballa and 

 Amritsar, thanks to the very obliging Station Masters at those places, so we had not to 

 change from Delhi to Pathankot. 



