1 tienble passes, the journey occupying three weeks; and ttie
2 tea is brought front Thibet, in the shape of cokes, and is
3 ’•ft”; much inferior to that' which is produced in India. I
4 explained to the maharajah, to Ins great astonishment, that
5 the soil of Caslmierc was favoarable to the production of
6 liot.it these articles; and also that the sugar cane (which will
7 not grow there) was not essential for the production of sugar,
8 as it could he prepared of equal quality from a kind of
9 beet-root, for the cultivation of which that soil was eminently
10 adapted; and informed him that I should therefore solicit
11 perm sion to establish a sugar manufactory, both land and
12 labour : uere being exceedingly cheap. The maharajah agreed
13 entirely with my plan, and gave me an order for the pur¬
14 pose of enabling me to carry it out, which will be found
15 among the plates to this volume. God willing, I shall endea¬
16 vour to tarry that intention into effect.
17 As I have acquainted my readers, my hopes w. re to re-establish
18 my health in these hilly countries; bur. I hail reckoned without
19 my host; for the greater part of my domestics being natives of
20 Cashmere, and aware of my activity and zeal in assisting the
21 suffering part of mankind, they did not fail to trumpet my
22 medical success at Lahore to their countrymen, who flocked to
23 my abode with patients from morning till night. For two
24 months, there were not. less than a hundred pi .sons daily, to
25 solicit my assistance: 1 accorded it to them gratuitously; and
26 from their incessant attendance, I was not only compelled u,
27 expend (he whole of the clay in distributing medicaments,
28 which '''ere administered in die form of lozenges, but was . so
29 obliged to devote my evenings to the preparation of those which
30 were to be used on the day following. In fact, it frequently
31 happened that whole families came from some of the more
32 distant villages, and bringing, their provision with then:, they
33 encamped in my garden, and remained there for two or three
34 days, until I was able to furnish them with the requisite medi¬
35 cines and advice.