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0049 Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia : vol.3
インドおよび高地アジアへの科学調査隊派遣の成果 : vol.3
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doi: 10.20676/00000041
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drafts, though nominally equivalent to the amount specified therein, will not be so
in reality, the Mahárája's rupi being somewhat inferior to the Indian government rupi.

*Párvánas.* They should be procured from the civil or military authorities for
the mountainous provinces subject to British rule. A small party will, perhaps,
rarely be in urgent want of such documents; but for a larger party they are almost
absolutely necessary. The authorities at the hill-stations and in the Pánjáb are well
known for the obliging kindness with which they provide travellers with these do-
cuments, as soon as an application is made.

As yet it is not in the power of even the viceroy and governor-general of
India to supply párvánas, or letters of introduction, for the chiefs and rulers of those
countries which I have marked as being penetrable only in disguise.¹

*Servants.*² Three personal servants for each gentleman, including the sais (groom
for the horse) and a bhísti (water-carrier) common for the whole party, should it
be composed of several members, will be found sufficient for ordinary purposes. At
any of the larger towns, during a stay of some duration, the servants always know
how to procure an assistant, in case such additional help should be found necessary.
Indian servants are entitled to higher wages in the mountains, as well as to warm
clothing, and solid shoes.

If the traveller be a sportsman, he will perhaps require, besides his personal
servants, the services of a shikári (shooter), and for the superintendence of his kúlis,
those of a tindal or pátvári (headman or overseer of the kúlis).³

*Horses and Dándis.* Horses, or properly speaking hill-ponies, may be easily had
for the traveller's own use at any of the hill stations; and a very good animal may