EXPLANATION OF SOME UNFAMILIAR WORDS. Auberge | A medicine for colds. | Bhoussa | Chopped straw. | Boortsa | A kind of heather. | Bully beef | Tinned beef. | Choudrie | Official in a bazaar. | Chuppaties | Unleavened bread. | Degchies | Cooking-pots. | Ecka | A two-wheeled native cart. | Ghi | Clarified butter. | Hallal | To kill according to Mohammedan form. | Hann | A variety of Tibetan vegetable. | K'ang | A raised platform used as a bed. There is a fire underneath it. | Kumbuk | A variety of Tibetan vegetable. | Numnah | Felt saddle-cloth. | Palan | A kind of saddle. | Poshteen | A fur coat. | Suleetah | Saddlebag. | Yakdan | Mule trunk. |
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