تقرير عن رحلة في كشمير كتبه ديفيد لوكهارت روبرتسون لوريمر ورسائل من إميلي أوفرند لوريمر إلى والديها تم إرسالها من البحرين وكرمان [ظ‎‎٦‎١‎٣] (١٢٩١/١٢٤٨)

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that our "holidays” must have been far the most laborious
part of Mother’s well-filled year
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le you will be glad to know that we have great hopes of
getting a little change ourselves after all before the weariness
and fatigue of our own packing set In. We cannot go far and
we shrink from the tciyuble and fag of taking out tents etc. so
we have modified our ambitions and are Just going to take a
small picnic outfit and go for a week or so to an neighbouring
village Sar 1 “Aslyab (the"head of the mill race”) a few miles off.
There Is a fine house there in a good garden belonging to the
Salar Nusrat son of the sirdar Nusrat which Is standing empty,
and wh. the Sirdar Nusrat has put at our disposal. "e shall
of course take our own beds etc., but we shall be spared the
trouble of tents and also all fears about uncertain weather,
wind or rain storms (we have had thunder and tropical showers the
last few days). Sar 1 Asiyab stands slightly uphill at the
base of the road to our retreat of last year In nice fcpen
country, and we shall have a complete change of scene and be free
from the eternal Interruptions of farrashes and the like.
We shall go out ourselves on our bicycles, and can run In
again for anything that we have forgotten, but all we want are s
some old clothes and a few books, and lots of note paper, for we
owe letters all round and have been too pressed for time to write
at all lately.
A s soon as we get back we must tackle the packing problems
seriously with the discouraging possibility that as soon as
the house Is thoroughly dismantled we shall find ourselves
detained for another six months. It Is going to be a very
bad time for selling off out stuff; we had counted on clearing
off all our slough-able kit, linen, silver, etc. and now no
one has any money to buy and I fear we shall be left with
benches and tools and sliver lamps and all sorts of things on our
hands and it Is a question how to dispose of them. Carpets
and the like I think we shall pack and leave here; It will be
troublesome and risky getting them down from this when we want
them again, but if we take them to B.A. or Bombay they will very
likely be spoiled by the climate and we shall have to pay storage
while taking them all the way home and out again would be both
troublesome andextravagant. Meantime we are going to have our
little holiday first and face all these problems after.
D ik . westlake and Miss Petley are off home on leave next week
they had not expected to start for another month or so, we even
thought they might perhaps be down the road with us, but Dr.
Stewart (Mis# Boyland’s sister) is coming out earlier than was
expected and they are to meet her at B.A. and hand over their
mules and camp kit to her. She Is coming to her sister on
a 6 months’ visit and then returning to her C.M.S. work In
Ispahan. I cannot thlnWlt win be a wholly restful f way
of spending her leave, as the youngsters take a lot of looking
a.ter and Mrs. B. is none too strong, but It win be nice for