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liowling dogs banished all sleep. At Alexan- 

 dria a wealthy Mahomedan merchant, long set- 

 tled in Egypt, by name Khooda Bucksh, paid 

 his respects to the Meer, and did all in his 

 power to accommodate His Highness. With 

 Khooda Bucksh we left a Styrian cow, which 

 the Meer had purchased at Trieste for the pur- 

 pose of improving the breed of cattle in Sindh, 

 as she was unable to walk from an injury sus- 

 tained on shipboard. This lessened my re- 

 sponsibilities on the road, and they were no 

 trifle, from the enormous quantity of luggage 

 that His Highness and followers carried with 

 them, and the impossibility of ever inducing 

 any of the party to be punctual as to time. 

 Fortunately for us, railway officials in Egypt 

 are not over-punctual themselves, thus we 

 managed to reach Cairo without any serious 

 mishap. We there found my friend Meer 

 JafiBr Ali Khan Bahader, on his way to India, 

 after a five years' residence in England, where 

 his society was courted in the highest circles. 

 On the following morning I attended divine 

 service, which was performed by the Rev. Mr 

 Leader, a German missionary, in a spacious 

 room fitted up as a chapel. The congregation 



