. Shooting in the Himalayas. A journal of sporting adventures and travel in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, &c . part ofthe bark of the apricot tree, pounded andkneaded as above. The dried paste fromwhich common oil has been extracted, calledpoena, is also used, and lumps of this areoften without further preparation thrustinto a pod through the orifice in the skin,to increase the weight. Sometimes no care istaken to give the material employed infilling a counterfeit pod even the appearanceof musk. A gentleman once showed me apod he had bought from a Puharrie atMissourie; on my tellin
. Shooting in the Himalayas. A journal of sporting adventures and travel in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, &c . part ofthe bark of the apricot tree, pounded andkneaded as above. The dried paste fromwhich common oil has been extracted, calledpoena, is also used, and lumps of this areoften without further preparation thrustinto a pod through the orifice in the skin,to increase the weight. Sometimes no care istaken to give the material employed infilling a counterfeit pod even the appearanceof musk. A gentleman once showed me apod he had bought from a Puharrie atMissourie; on my telling him it was counter-feit, he cut it open, and found it filled withhookah tobacco. September 26th, was a provokingly fineday, but our leave of absence was drawingto a close ; so saying good-bye to Wilsonwith regret, we turned our backs upon theSnowy range, and went down to Missourie,as hard as we could go= Arrived there onthe 30th, and in two nights more reachedMeerut by dak, where I had the satisfaction RETUEN TO MEERUT. 101 of finding everything in capital order; theregiment healthy, and my horses in MUSK-DEEK. CHAPTER V. The cold season.—Shooting.—March toUmballa.—Delhi.—Kurnal.—Start for the hills.—Arrangements for the trip Servants.—The Puharries.— Their good qualities.—Religion.—The Fairies.—Novel treatment of maladies.—The Teree Rajah.—His government.—State of the country A blood feud.—Puharrie equality.—Women.— Marriage.—Polyandry.—Dress. — Habitations.—Supplies to be procured in the villages.—AVildrhubarb, currants, raspberries, and strawberries.—Apricot orchards.—Vegetables.—Wild spinach and asparagus. — Edible fern.—Morells.—Mushrooms.—Hermetically sealed provisions.—Yew-bark tea.—Successfulsport.— Many a slip twixt cup and lip.—Recall to the plains.—Feroze-pore.—Commencement of the Punjab campaigns.—My brigade.—Marchto Mooltan.—Apoplexy.—The Siege of Mooltan. The cold seaso
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