1 forks; in fact, we played out parti so well, that none recognised
2 us as Christians. Having our quarters in the mosque, it was
3 very annoying'for. us to see the musselmans come live titties in
4 twenty-four hours, to offer up their prayers. They thought it
5 strange thut we, as pilgrims and their guests, (lid not join in
6 their devotions. It is true, we could easily have done so,
7 hut knowing how to excuse ourselves, we did not like to push our
8 dissimulation any further. We bed only to whisper into the etu
9 of one of them that we were unclean. From that expression they
10 inferred that we had the gonorrboeu, which excuse became a
11 public secret; and we thus got out of the dilficulty. I' l0,n
12 Mooltan to Lahore we went on horseback. The y urney hom
13 Bagdad to Lahore occupied four months; i.e., two by water,mid
14 two by land. On my arrival at Lahore, T found that the king,
15 Runjeet Sing, with his army and the four French officers, was
16 absent, having goiic towards Peshawur; but at the commence¬
17 ment of the rainy season, in the middle of June, they had all re¬
18 turned to Lahore, and l was well received. The first patient I
19 had to attend, after my arri\a! at Lahore, and before I got
20 public, employment, was Achilles, an adopted son of General
21 Allard. This boy was afflicted with a fistula on the spine, ot
22 Jong duration, and which' had been several limes superficially
23 healed b\ the native surgeons. He was so reduced, that one
24 could truly say, he w;es but skin and bone; “Oisfl atqve pellis
25 fotus mt* which of course rendered the case most difficult. 1
26 was convinced that my medical reputation depended upon this
27 case. General Allard told me that the boj would die, if not at-
28 tendvd to, that he could no longer bear to see him in that pitiful
29 suite, and urgently solicited my aid. He did not at that time
30 imagine that his darling Achilles would outlive him; but the
31 destiny of man liett hidden. Allard died at Peshawur, and was
32 buried at Lahore; and Achilles returned from France to Lahore,
33 where lie also died, and was buried in the cemetery, near to
34 General Allard’s own tomb, which wa, in bis adjacent garden.
35 1 ventured to perform an operation, and that by force, foi the
36 hoy made an obstinate resistance, when I placed him on a sofa.
37 General Allard holding his amis and General Ventura his feet,