تقرير عن رحلة في كشمير كتبه ديفيد لوكهارت روبرتسون لوريمر ورسائل من إميلي أوفرند لوريمر إلى والديها تم إرسالها من البحرين وكرمان [ظ‎‎٦‎٣‎٤] (١٢٩١/١٢٩٠)

Nothing could exceed the Tclndness of everybody; they seem really
touched by our going. All our official goodbyes are said; our last
At Home was a p.p.c. one; the house is inside out and we are living
in a picnic sort of way.
“e hope to be able to travel down by the aaft route wh. is a
great deal shorter than the Jlruft one by wh. we came up; we ought to
do the Journey in ordays. ”e have been in greatX luck, and
have got a lot of good mules. i'he difference between great lusty
mules and the shabby little donkeys such as those who brought us up,
is said to be Immense.
We hope to get our caravan started off early on s a t. a ®. and to
follow later ourselves in a borrowed carriage; after the first stage
we shall then ride as before. But it is very pleasant not to
have to start out,/the first day when everything is upset and uncertain
I cannot tell you how difficult it has been to try and pack .’
If we had the remotest idea where we were going or what we were going
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it woubtstill be hard enough. Howver, since the chances are that
we shall sooner or later be off on duty again somewhere, we think it
better to alter our original intention of leaving a good deal of
stuff behind in the chrage of the O.C.ivI.and we now intend to take
everything with us, except the bicycles, wh. Mr. Taylor most nobly
has undertaken to sell for us if he can. »e shall thus be prepare'
for anything. ^
If it does work out that we get even a short spell of leave before
taking up new work we shall try to turn it into a as pleasant a
honeymoon as possible. The Ganges wll seem a poor stream by Com
parison with the Codder, but these things cannot be helped and better
people than we / ar£ in worse cases. W© are sorriest for all of you
at home who have been looking forwrad to our coming, but we know also
that you will accept the Inevitable with philosophy and Just.take it
as one o x> the sacrifices entailed by the war. H 0 w all these things
will ultimately affect everybody's leave home of course nobody can"^^
and everything doubtless depends on the course of the war.
Turkey's Joining in will make it all more tedious.
Menatlrae the war telegrams are all cheering though the loss of
life is appalling.
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•L*ock Jolnd me in fondest love to you all. We are grieving
sorely for your disappointment. But you must not think of us as
chafing in any other way. «e set out once more into the unknown
in good spititsand with every expectation that we shall find pleasant
pedpie ahead as behind.
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