A I remember a native’s answer to a remark of mine, which shows that there are always two sides to a question, even a question of improvement. His Persian wheel, near to which my tent had been pitched, kept me awake all night with its abominable creaking, and I asked him in the morning why he didn’t use grease to stop the noise? He said, “I am accustomed to it, and if the creaking ceases I wake up; I know the wheel has stopped because the bullock-driver has gone to sleep, and I go out and beat him.”

B The Grand Trunk Road having been first metalled with kunkur when Lord William Bentinck was Governor-General, that distinguished nobleman was called by some facetious engineer, William the Kunkurer.