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0055 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
Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia : vol.3 / 55 ページ(カラー画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000041
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Wines and spirits of various kinds suitable to European taste¹ are gradually
becoming obtainable in the capital of Kashmír, and even in some of the larger towns
of the Himálaya.

Cigars occupy so much space that it is preferable to substitute tobacco, packed
in tin-boxes. We found tobacco² (growing even without local cultivation) generally
used by the natives; but it cannot be procured properly prepared anywhere in the
the interior.

Candles and matches³ can be obtained nowhere in the Himálaya. Soap of an in-
ferior description is occasionally to be had in Tibet, and almost anywhere in Turkistán.
But it will be found too alkaline for personal use.

Medicine Chest. A small portable medicine chest (easily procurable at any
of the larger stations of India, but scarcely at the hill-stations) must be taken for
any long trip, and is so much the more valuable as the traveller will only too often
be requested to distribute medicines to native sufferers.

Breakfast and Dinner Service, and Cooking Apparatus. With reference to
the former, as few articles as possible should be of porcelain or glass, the material
best adapted being tin, or electrotyped ware. Such ware should, however, be bought
at one of the larger stations of India, as it is rarely to be obtained in any of the
shops existing at the hill-stations, where, to a certainty, the prices asked would be
exorbitant.

The cooking utensils should be entirely of tin, not of tinned copper: tinning being

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