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