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128 JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE
from the bad quality of our materials. I am in-
formed forty deserters from the northern army,
and seventeen thieves, are to be burnt in some of
the wheels to-morrow.
March 5. To-day the mayhoon of Hunza-
wuddy's fire-works were exhibited ; I understood
all the wheels, to the number of 500, failed;
to-morrow the princes of the blood exhibit theirs,
and the day after the king's will be exhibited,
which closes the festival. I still feel very un-
well, the extreme heat, my confined situation, and
anxiety for the termination of my public business,
combine to render my stay here irksome; but I
have no remedy but patience and temperance,
which I trust will bear me out.
f Morn. 74°.
Thermometer at present is < Noon .84.
1 {_Even. 93.
March 8. I understand the festival will
continue to the 9th instant. We amused our-
selves in distilling spirits of wine, and preparing
materials for the balloons ; but the materials within
our reach, are so very bad, and the air so rarefied
that I almost doubt our success with a mont-
golfier.
March 9. The rayhoon being lame, I have
not seen him for some days past, but he sent
to request to know when I would visit the princes
of the blood. I returned for answer that I was
ready to go whenever it suited his excellency
from the bad quality of our materials. I am in-
formed forty deserters from the northern army,
and seventeen thieves, are to be burnt in some of
the wheels to-morrow.
March 5. To-day the mayhoon of Hunza-
wuddy's fire-works were exhibited ; I understood
all the wheels, to the number of 500, failed;
to-morrow the princes of the blood exhibit theirs,
and the day after the king's will be exhibited,
which closes the festival. I still feel very un-
well, the extreme heat, my confined situation, and
anxiety for the termination of my public business,
combine to render my stay here irksome; but I
have no remedy but patience and temperance,
which I trust will bear me out.
f Morn. 74°.
Thermometer at present is < Noon .84.
1 {_Even. 93.
March 8. I understand the festival will
continue to the 9th instant. We amused our-
selves in distilling spirits of wine, and preparing
materials for the balloons ; but the materials within
our reach, are so very bad, and the air so rarefied
that I almost doubt our success with a mont-
golfier.
March 9. The rayhoon being lame, I have
not seen him for some days past, but he sent
to request to know when I would visit the princes
of the blood. I returned for answer that I was
ready to go whenever it suited his excellency