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Kolhatkar, Arvind [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india-british-raj@rootsweb.com/thread/206388/ Laying the Dawk - Part 2] ''Rootsweb India-British-Raj Mailing List'' 13 May 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2018.</ref> This referred to appointing relays of bearers to be ready on certain nights, at certain stations by which the traveller passed passed. "Five men carry the palkee, four more attend as reserves to take their turn, two carry tin petarrahs, or boxes slung on a pole, and two carry torches".<ref> [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9LIRAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22laying%20the%20dawk%22&pg=PA16 "A Tiger Tale"] page 16 ''Warne’s Home Annual 1868'' Google Books.</ref> [https://archive.org/stream/hobsonjobson029985mbp#page/n351/mode/2up Dawk/dak],meaning Post, page 299 ''Hobson Jobson''. The word survives in dak bungalow, a traveller's rest house. Routes, estimates of times, costs etc are included in [https://books.google.ca/books?id=GZMRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR6 ''‪Itinerary and Directory for Western India: being a collection of routes through the provinces subject to the Presidency of Bombay, and the principal roads in the neighbouring states''] by Captain John Clunes 12th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry 1826‬. Google Books

**[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000530C4#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=54&z=-478.5368%2C0%2C2420.0735%2C2385 "Account of a Late Palankeen Trip from Bombay to Mhow and Lahore" [December, 1837<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. Part II, page 39 ''Narrative of a Late Steam Voyage from England to India via the Mediteranean. (Part II. Account of a Late Palankeen Trip from Bombay to Mhow and Lahore'') by Captain T Seymour Burt. 1840. British Library Digital Collection.

**[https://archive.org/stream/glimpsesofoldbom00dougrich#page/148/mode/2up “Across India in a Palkee” [in 1845]<nowiki>]</nowiki> page 149 ''Glimpses of Old Bombay and Western India, with other papers'' by James Douglas 1900 Archive.org. Article with images: [https://web.archive.org/web/20150422033033/http://oldphotosbombay.blogspot.com/2011/02/bombay-to-calcutta-18251400-miles-in-25.html "Bombay to Calcutta ...1,400 Miles In 25 Days, in a Palanquin...] Old Photos, Bombay, now archived.

*[http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll123/id/78892/rec/156 Photograph: Missionary being taken up hill on a litter [dandy<nowiki>]</nowiki>, Darjeeling, ca.1890] Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland. USC Digital Library. [http://www.archive.org/stream/hobsonjobson029985mbp#page/n349/mode/2up Dandy, dandi] page 296 ''Hobson Jobson'' 1903 (first published 1886) Archive.org