In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . -walled shelters),and in default of these my men put up for me a neatlymade Chahna,^ or chopper, a hut of mats andbranches of trees, in the construction of which the Paharisare wonderfully dexterous. I had also my small moun-tain tent, a tente dabri, quite comfortable enough forordinary requirements. It seems, however, that this style of travelling is notconsidered comme il faut by the officials of India. It isthe number and size of ones tents, according to these au-thorities, that make one a greater or a smaller had put u
In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . -walled shelters),and in default of these my men put up for me a neatlymade Chahna,^ or chopper, a hut of mats andbranches of trees, in the construction of which the Paharisare wonderfully dexterous. I had also my small moun-tain tent, a tente dabri, quite comfortable enough forordinary requirements. It seems, however, that this style of travelling is notconsidered comme il faut by the officials of India. It isthe number and size of ones tents, according to these au-thorities, that make one a greater or a smaller had put up my tent—three feet high, seven feet long =*= Chahna—Pahari. Chopper, Dehsi— RANK SETTLED BY SIZE OF TENT and four feet wide — by the side of the two double-leafeight^^-pound tents of the Deputy Commissioner, but thisofficial and his companions were far from pleased withthis act of familiarity. For a double-tented sahib to beseen in company with another sahib whose bijou tent rosefrom the ground hardly up to ones waist was infra
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