2nd camel load : One large trunk containing children’s
clothing, plate chest, three bags, and one bonnet-box.
196 The Complete Indian
3rd camel load : Three boxes of books, one box contain-
ing folding chairs, light tin box with clothing.
4th camel load : Four cases of stores, four cane chairs,
saddle-stand, mackintosh sheets.
5th camel load : One chest of drawers, two iron cots, tea-
table, pans for washing up.
6th camel load : Second chest of drawers, screen, lamps,^
lanterns, hanging wardrobes.
7th camel load: Two boxes eontaining house linen, two
casks containing ornaments,^ ice-pails, angethis, door-mats.
8th camel load : Three casks of crockery, another cask
containing ornaments, filter, pardah bamboos, tennis-poles.
9th camel load: Hot-ease, milk-safe, baby’s tub and stand,
sewing-machine, fender and irons, water-cans, jntchers.
10th camel load: Three boxes containing saddlery, kitchen
utensils, carpets.
11th camel load: Two boxes containing drawing-room
sundries, servants’ coats, iron bath, cheval glass, plate basket.
Or the above articles could be loaded on four country
carts, each with three or four bullocks for the up hill journey
and two or three for the descent.
Camels travel at the rate of tliree miles an hour, and
bullock-carts more slowly still, so time must be allowed, and
personal luggage must be carried by mules or coolies.
A piano, where carts can be used, requires a cart to itself,
and should be swung to avoid being injured by jolting. It
the road is only a camel- road, the piano must be carried by
coolies, of whom fourteen or sixteen will be needed.
Servants are best left to make their own arrangements for
themselves and their goods and chattels , but a stand should
be made against mill-stones and bedsteads, and extra special
conveyance should as a rule be refused. Ihey will peich on
carts, camels, and mules, much as birds of the aii do , and
they will quarrel among themselves. But it is best to be
inexorable when appealed to.
When a march is made by stages, and one’s own cows
accompany, these latter should start, after being milked, the
ni<rht before the family ; at the first halting-place the milk
should be left ready for the family on arrival. The last day
1 Breakables are preferably carried 011 mules; camels are not
patient— except in poetry.
Housekeeper and Cook i97
of the march the morning’s milk should be taken on in
bottles to be made into butter on arrival, and the cows
should reach their destination in time to be milked there
that evening. rri •
Then as to the journey of oneself and family, ibis can
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
2nd camel load : One large trunk containing children’s clothing, plate chest, three bags, and one bonnet-box.
196 The Complete Indian
3rd camel load : Three boxes of books, one box containing folding chairs, light tin box with clothing.
4th camel load : Four cases of stores, four cane chairs, saddle-stand, mackintosh sheets.
5th camel load : One chest of drawers, two iron cots, teatable, pans for washing up.
6th camel load : Second chest of drawers, screen, lamps,^ lanterns, hanging wardrobes.
7th camel load: Two boxes containing house linen, two casks containing ornaments,^ ice-pails, angethis, door-mats.
8th camel load : Three casks of crockery, another cask containing ornaments, filter, pardah bamboos, tennis-poles.
9th camel load: Hot-case, milk-safe, baby's tub and stand, sewing-machine, fender and irons, water-cans, pitchers.
10th camel load: Three boxes containing saddlery, kitchen utensils, carpets.
11th camel load: Two boxes containing drawing-room sundries, servants’ coats, iron bath, cheval glass, plate basket.
Or the above articles could be loaded on four country carts, each with three or four bullocks for the up hill journey and two or three for the descent.
Camels travel at the rate of three miles an hour, and bullock-carts more slowly still, so time must be allowed, and personal luggage must be carried by mules or coolies.
A piano, where carts can be used, requires a cart to itself, and should be swung to avoid being injured by jolting. It the road is only a camel- road, the piano must be carried by coolies, of whom fourteen or sixteen will be needed.
Servants are best left to make their own arrangements for themselves and their goods and chattels , but a stand should be made against mill-stones and bedsteads, and extra special conveyance should as a rule be refused. Ihey will peich on carts, camels, and mules, much as birds of the aii do , and they will quarrel among themselves. But it is best to be
inexorable when appealed to.
When a march is made by stages, and one’s own cows accompany, these latter should start, after being milked, the ni<rht before the family ; at the first halting-place the milk should be left ready for the family on arrival. The last day
1 Breakables are preferably carried 011 mules; camels are not patient— except in poetry.
Housekeeper and Cook i97
of the march the morning’s milk should be taken on in bottles to be made into butter on arrival, and the cows should reach their destination in time to be milked there
that evening. rri •
Then as to the journey of oneself and family, ibis can