تقرير عن رحلة في كشمير كتبه ديفيد لوكهارت روبرتسون لوريمر ورسائل من إميلي أوفرند لوريمر إلى والديها تم إرسالها من البحرين وكرمان [ظ‎‎٥‎٧‎٣] (١٢٩١/١١٦٨)

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first and best, so his hands are pretty full, and the 'unforgiving
minute* too,
I am hard at work on the Indexes In my spare moments, and am
happy to he le arning Pashtu at last. It Is surprising the sort
of mental inertia which enables you to copy the whole of a M.S.
and retain practically nothing; but I suppose it is really a sort
of self-defence one learns as one grows older — not allowing
you to waste brain-power on what for the moment you do not want.
Now that It comes to indexing, for which you need to be very
wide awake Indeed, I am tackling it In earnest. It is the greatest
fun, and as Lock would not possibly be able tomake time for it,
unless indeed he gave up something more useful and newer, I feel
it is some use. W e got a lot of foolscap cut into slips that
Just fit into a cigar box, and are an excellent substitute for
the expensive cards and drawers you buy at home.
The lullaby-falry-tale collection continues to prove amusing
I have got some delightful riddles: What is It that falls from
heaven without breaking, but breaks If It tumbles off the window
sill ? An Egg. What Is It that breaks if It falls off a
window sill and all its children gather round It at once t -
A Water-rmelon. And so on; many of them so local as to have no
point if translated. For Instance: A long narrow dark corrldor_
and a yearling-calf lowing (what is that) ? Answer : A Qalliun
namely the bubble bubble pipe with its long thin tube (like a bltif
of hose-piping) and its roaring mumraur as the air comes throwgh
the water.
You will be dismayed to hear the latest from Yezd. Poor
Mrs. Wright, who already seemed more than overwhelmed with two
ailing and spoilt children has presented her husband with
triplets. They have found two native women to nurse the pair
of boys while M r s. Wright tries to mind the wee girl herself;
they hope to rear all three. But Isn't it really awful. And
how are they ever going to be able to travel home with 5 babies.
If any of the new arrivals die (which to an impartial observer
seems not undesirable !) I do hope it won't be the much-prayed-for
little girl. Poor things; it is al least well that they are in
Yezd where work is lighter and where they seem to find the climate
and house more attractive. I can't help being selfishly glad
that they are not here, for one could do very little to help them
and yet I am sure that they would never be off one's mind. I
don't at all envy the Yezd community. There is so little
elasticity about the European community in these places, no extra
sisters or willing aunts, nor hirable nurses to come In at crises
that the tax of an un reasonable amount of illness on everyone is
very great.
We think here that poor Mr. Sandherr has really passed the
limits of what is reasonable. He is working through a fourth
relapse, and has now been 4 months in bed. I greatly fear
that even if he does ultimately get better, he will have knocked