تقرير عن رحلة في كشمير كتبه ديفيد لوكهارت روبرتسون لوريمر ورسائل من إميلي أوفرند لوريمر إلى والديها تم إرسالها من البحرين وكرمان [و‎‎٢‎٧‎٠] (١٢٩١/٥٤٩)

cOiigratulftod my ye If that if he iayiyted on drinking at least QO^v
m was doing A at his own expense, and I kept a cellar uook and
noted the rare dates on which I left out a oottle of whiskey
etc. A day or so after he had gone I went down it) give
out a bottle; everything seemed in nice order, one unopened
case of twelve oottles and four oottles in the open case, just
as it ought to oe. Shortly<,Yusuf comes running with a decan
ter full of innocuous white liquid in his hand and a look of
mystification on his face. The stuff proved to be pure water
and we found that all four oottles had been carefully omptied /
filled with wat r re-corked, (with brand new corks) and recapped.
The sight of the unopened case comforted us and we wore glad to
think he had only carried off-four bottles out when we lifted
the case to open it - it was empty'. The bottom had been
neatly taken off and nothing left inside but the straw envelopes.
He must have found some key that opened the storeroom and per
formed these neat conjuring tricks the night befors he left.
If only we could lay our fingers on him now 1 It might not
do easy to bring home the deed to him unless he sold the
whiskey oefore he left or was caught with th oottles in his
possession, out if we had him still in Bahrein w could pro-
oaoly do something. As it is eaen if we were on
the telegraph and aole to hi-ve him arrested at Bombay, it would
oe impossible to pursue the matt r from this distance. So
he gets off scotfree, the rascal. We have missed nothing
else - yet.
The cook^ is at the moment giving us food for thought
in addition to the ordinary menu. I have made twice or three
$.imes protests as strong as my defective Hindustani would allow
against a steady rise in his weekly bills whicn could not all
bo due to the winter prices. But this had little or a very
transitory effect, so I put the books in Lock's hands, ee+Jcs
was par-hcrr electrified to see Lock^ready to give him his weekly
advance and still more surprised at the good advice which accom
panied it. He was full of injured innocence, out rather gave
himself away oy saying that the pepple in the oazar expected
large purchases to be made for the "Baliuz" and ho was really
ashamed to ouy as little as he did l Urw rirn-r Lock s^d he ws
very sorry Andrades ; pride should suffer, out as long a the P,A.
didn't mind / the cook need not worry; however he gave him leave
to buy anything extra that he felt his dignity demanded — out
of his own resources. To emphasise his remarks he taxed three
rupees off the last bill; at this the cook sr t up a terriole
wail, it was an absolutely exceptional week&tc. However Lock