1 no avail, and for n whole fortnight I was unable to bleep night
2 or day, and was without food of am kind; for on my aUeinptiiig
3 to take the slightest nourishment,-mat pure water, the stomach
4 rejected it again immediately; and front the circumstance of an
5 acrid fluid sometimes .ising to my mouth, and an unnatural
6 feeling of heaviness in the stomach, l was led to conclude
7 that there was an ulceration there. Erratic swellings in the
8 joints, accompanied by dysentery, followed ; and I was so
9 weakened, that on the morning of the day when my brother
10 arrived, I was in a piteous state of blindness and exhaustion.
11 On that day / commenced using that simple remedy which
12 contributed to my restoration front the very dangerous illness
13 at Khfcirpore, on the Indus (as the reader may remember), viz.,
14 masticating some of those large raisins, culled there mtni'fka,
15 which I found to act as a balm to the stomach, or rattier,
16 perhaps, to the ulceration there. From that moment I grew
17 visibly better, my appetite and strength gradually increased, and
18 1 was at length restored to health.
19 As regards my brother, it soon became evident, that in the
20 altered state of political affairs in the Punjab, there could be no
21 probability of his obtaining any engagement which would justify
22 him in remaining: he therefore returned again to Europe,
23 accompanied by Colonel- Steinbach.
24 As an instance Of the fanaticism of the N.-dmugs (the robber-
25 pack I have before mentioned), i may relate on occurrence
26 which took place at Umritsir, in which a German friend of
27 mine, Herr August Schdfft, was near losing his life bv their
28 fury. Thin gentleman is an artist of some celebrity (at this
29 time in St. Pe tersburg), and he, accompanied by his lady, visited
30 the East Indian Presidencies shortly before tny severe illness;
31 and having met with great success in consequence of his skill
32 iu oil painting, he came to visit me at Lahore. At. this time the
33 court happened to be at Umritsir, and I received an order from
34 Sheer Sing to present myself at that place with my guest. On
35 our arrival, it happened ’that one oi the principal Siklt priest's,
36 named Baii Goonmuok Sing, was present, and the maharajah