1 and to each of them lie gave a rupee, as a remuneration.
2 On the eighth day, on which the cltydren ought to have come to
3 trie, that I might take the vaccine matter for further use, no one
4 appeared, and I was told that, their alarmed parents had removed
5 them from the town. The parents had heard a rumour that on
6 the eighth day, on their re-appearance, the Feringhee (European)
7 doctor would cut the irtoowiui from their arm, which operation
8 wa.- supposed to endanger life; but on General Ventura’s threat¬
9 ening the kotoal (police-officer) with imprisonment, one of the
10 hoys, was brought to me on the following morning, from whom 1
11 got vaccine matter enough to enable me to vaccinate several
12 other children, among whom was Miss Viotorine, at the harem
13 of the general. The people having thus been convinced of
14 their foolish error, came in numbers to my aliode; the popula¬
15 tion o( all the neighbouring villages, young and old, wished also
16 to be operated on. Here again l had the opportunity of making
17 some medical and surgical experiments, obliged as I was, to
18 wait four months lor the caravan of the Coanis, who were
19 purchasing indigo in that neighbourhood, to carry it to Bokhara.
20 My intention was to accompany that caravan, and to continue
21 my journey from Bokhara to my native country, by crossing
22 Kussia. I learned afterwards, that after my departure from
23 Dliera, Hunjeei Sing began to be indisposed, and be sent mes¬
24 sengers after me, to induce me to return, but they did mi over-
25 take me.
26 From Dliera-CJhasi-Khan, T went with the caravan to Dhera-
27 heiid. situated on the upper part of Dheia-Ismail-lChan, at the
28 fool of the mountain, where the women, children, horses and
29 sheep of the Lion is were residing beneath their tents. Wishing
30 to secure a supply of vaccine matter, on my journey to Cabul
31 and Bokhara, 1 endeavoured, immediately on my arrival at
32 Dliera bend, to operate with it; hut it was a difficult task, us the
33 h at was excessive and increasing. The Loanis, however, agreed
34 to undergo the operation as soon as they had reached the cooler
35 regi me of the mountains. But during this interval the vaccine
36 hist its virtue, which I regretted, opeciallv at Cabul, as the