reached where the army had encamped after crossing the ford. Today 6 kurohs (12 m.) were done.
{March 18th) Next day {Friday 8th), we stayed on that ground.
{March igth) On Saturday {<?th), we marched 12kurohs and got to the bank of Gang again at Nuliba.1
{March 20th) Marching on {Sunday 10th), we did 6kutphs of road, and dismounted at Kintit.2
{March 21st) Marching on {Monday nth), we dismounted at Nanapur3 Taj Khan Sarang-khani came from Chunar to this ground with his two young sons, and waited on me.
In these days a dutiful letter came from Pay-master SI. Muhammad, saying that my family and train were understood to be really on their way from Kabul.4
{March 23rd) On Wednesday {13th) we marched from that ground. I visited the fort of Chunar, and dismounted about one kuroh beyond it.
During the days we were marching from Piag, painful boils had come out on my body. While we were on this ground, an Ottoman Turk (Rumi) used a remedy which had heen recently discovered in Rum. He boiled pepper in a pipkin ; I held the sores in the steam and, after steaming ceased, laved them with the hot water. The treatment lasted 2 sidereal hours.
While we were on this ground, a person said he had seen tiger and rhinoceros on an drdl5 by the side of the camp.
{March 24th?) In the morning{14th}), we made the huntingcircle 6 on that anil, elephants also being brought. Neither tiger nor rhino appeared ; one wild buffalo came out at the end of the line. A bitter wind rising and the whirling dust being very troublesome, I went back to the boat and in it to the camp which was 2kurohs (4m.) above Panares.
" * Perhaps, where there is now the railway station of " Nulibai " (I. S. Map). The direct road on which the army moved, avoids the windings of the river. 3 This has been read as T. kin/, P. dih, Eng. village and Fr. village.
3 "Nankunpur" lying to the north of Puhari railway-station suits the distance measured on maps.
4 These will be the women-travellers.
5 Perhaps jungle tracts lying in the curves of the river.
jirga, which here stands for the beaters' incurving line, witness the exit of the buffalo at the end. Cf. f. 367* for zjirga of boats.
