CULTURE OF HEMP IN THE HIMALAYAS. 321 
the Hemp according to their own method, and teaching the 
people in the plains, who are already practised in the art of 
preparing Sunn. It would, however, be desirable to procure, if 
practicable, the assistance of some European (and such might be 
found among the soldiery) who had seen and practised the pre- 
paration of Hemp in this country. The experiment might be 
made with little expense, and probably great advantage, from 
the useful information which would be obtained for the use of 
cultivators, in the Botanic Garden at Saharunpore, if instructions 
were given to this effect to Dr. Falconer, Superintendent of 
that Institution. 
“For due attention being paid to the details of this subject, 
it would be extremely desirable to send out to India specimens, 
with prices of the different qualities of Hemp found in the mar- 
kets of this country, so that cultivators in India might know 
what they had to imitate and rival. It would also be extremely 
desirable, in order to ascertain the present quality of the 
Himalayan Hemp, that specimens, in different states of prepara- 
tion, were sent here, as prepared by the Hill people, together 
with specimens of the Hempen Rope and Sackcloth of the 
Himalayas.” 
Subsequent to the publication of the foregoing report, several 
papers were sent to the Agri-Horticultural Society of Calcutta, 
and which are published in vol. viii of their ‘ Transactions,’ 
and in vol.i of their ‘Journal.’ These were from Majors 
Swetenham and Corbett, Captains Kirke aud Huddleston, and 
from the distinguished naturalist, Mr. Hodgson. The sub- 
stance of the last two we here republish, as containing much 
of the information on culture contained in the others, while 
Major Corbett and Capt. Kirke give valuable information re- 
specting the cost and the expense of conveyance to Calcutta ; 
which will be immediately noticed. 
Extracts from a Report on Hemp Cultivation, §c., in British Gurhwal, by 
Captain H. Huddleston, 14th July, 1840. 
2. There are two kinds of Hemp, “Bhang,” indigenous to the Himalayas ; 
—that called “ Khur-Bhunga,” or Jungle Bhang, growing wild throughout 
the whole of these Hills in all situations, and attaining a very considerable 
height during the season of the periodical rains, is of no use whatever, for 
the very insignificant quantity of “churrus” (the inspissated juice of the 
leaves obtained from the plant by rubbing between the hands) does not 
remunerate even the poorest class for the trouble bestowed upon it, and as 
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