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2 established at Lahore, and will now inform the reader of the
3 origin of that establishment.
4 Major Mac Gregor, the director of the police at Lahore, on
5 passing the bazaar on horseback, was one day stopped by a
6 woman, who was believed to be insane. On account of this
7 accident, the Resident issued an order that the durbar should
8 establish an asylum for such persons. I was consulted upon
9 the subject, and it was resolved that such patients should be
10 received into my hospital. Accordingly, many lunatics were
11 brought there, and they were generally followed by a great
12 many curious spectators. I succeeded in curing, in the course
13 of two months, the first five individuals under my superin-
14 tendance, which fact I communicated to the Rajah Teja Sing,
15 and he ordered me to present them to the assembly at the
16 Residency of Anarkullee : which I did. But they manifested no
17 desire to see them, and looked upon the matter with indifference,
18 by which I began to perceive that my stay at Lahore was near
19 its end, and that the best thing I could do was to return to
20 Europe. Neither did I think it necessary to wait for the arrival
21 of my assistants, whom I had, with the permission of the
22 government, requested to come over; namely, an apothecary and
23 a surgeon, from Europe. Both of these gentlemen had received
24 from me 3000 florins for the expenses of their journey, and I
25 intended also to pay their salaries from mv own private purse;
26 for as my health was on the decline, in consequence of the many
27 affairs to which I had to attend, I was really longing for some
28 relief.
29 The indifference shown to me, however, in the Residency, did
30 not prevent me from presenting the restored lunatics to the
31 native durbar at the fortress, and I was ordered to send them
32 to their respective homes. The woman who stopped the police-
33 director at the bazaar I presented to Major Mac Gregor when
34 he was in the Kotchery (office). They had committed her to
35 me in a most miserable state, nearly naked, and fettered like a
36 wild beast ; now she was dressed in a white gown, and looking
37 quite genteel. Without having been invited to sit down, she