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to Calcutta, it happened that I saw a good deal of 
him ; one day he chanced to pay me a visit when I 
was having some photographs taken, and I tried 
to get him to sit for his portrait. He objected to 
this as being contrary to the Koran, but he hinted 
that a friend of his who was present, and who did 
not know what photography was, might be got to sit, 
and accordingly his friend had a likeness taken 
without his ever suspecting what was being done. 
Next day he at once recognised the print of himself, 
and only then discovered why we had been making 
merry at his expense on the previous day. As soon 
as I learned that I was to go to Yarkand, I asked 
Mirza Shddi if I should be allowed to photograph in 
that country. He advised me to take the apparatus 
with me, but said I had better not ask leave, but do 
it as a matter of course. 
On the 12th May, whilst my arrangements were still 
incomplete, I had to hurry off to attend to an urgent 
case of sickness in the camp of Mr. Forsyth, who 
had preceded me, and was then forty-five miles 
beyond the Kashmir frontier. 
I left Lahore in the evening by " Ddk " carriage, 
and travelling all night to avoid the heat reached 
Wazirab^d, on the banks of the Chenab at 10 a.m. 
next morning ; after being delayed several hours on 
the road by bad horses. When I arrived, the 
thermometer in my carriage was at 95° F., and as it 
was much too hot to go on during the day, I made a 
halt, and at night went on to Syalkot, thirty miles 
distant. I reached Syalkot before the sun was up, 
and finding a carriage and pair of mules belonging to 
the Maharajah waiting for me, I at once went on to 
