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0056 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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an operation with which the natives in the hill-countries are but little conversant:
by using copper vessels exclusively the danger of the formation of verdigris is very
great, if the vessels be not kept unusually clean.

TRANSPORT OF LUGGAGE.

Packing. All provisions and articles liable to be damaged by becoming wet
should be packed as securely as possible; for even in Tibet, where there is generally
very little to be feared from rain, the fording of rivers may be very detrimental
to them.

Each of the various packages should be arranged so as to enable one kúli to
carry it even over difficult and dangerous ground.

Means of Conveyance. The traveller's luggage is carried in the Himálaya al-
most exclusively by kúlis; in some of the higher valleys by jhúbus (a cross-breed
between the yak and the Indian bullock); in Tibet by horses, yaks, and asses;¹ and
in Turkistán and Central Asia by horses or camels. Kúlis cannot be hired at all in
the last-named countries, and can only be obtained with difficulty in some provinces
of Tibet, especially in Gnári Khórsum.

A traveller in the Himálaya who intends making slow stages or frequent halts
would do best to engage the necessary number of kúlis for a long period. He will
have to pay his kúlis, on an average, three anas a day when marching, and two anas
on a rest-day, though these prices vary in different provinces. The wages of kúlis are
highest in the environs of Simla, Naínítál, and Mässúri; lowest in the higher valleys
of Gárhvál. On no account should an agreement be entered into to provide either
the kúlis or the personal servants with food, this being a source of endless quarrel-
ling and vexation; for although the food provided may be of the best quality, and
the most liberal allowance be made, the people will never be satisfied, but will invariably
annoy their master with groundless and interminable complaints, which it will be
beyond his power to remedy. Whenever any party requires a larger number of kúlis,
the services of a tíndal or pátvári, who acts as superintendent, should be secured, and
care be taken to provide some "chapráss" (belts with engraved plates); in case of