196 SEYUDS OF ROREE. 



resident villagers, who thus find a ready market 

 for the produce of their little farms in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the ruins. 



Roree, like Sukkur^ is remarkable for the nu- 

 merous tombs which cover the heights behind 

 the town, and are many of them of great size 

 and beauty, being faced with caussee work, or 

 encaustic bricks of the brightest colours and 

 most enduring material, set in a vast variety of 

 patterns. 



The Seyuds of Roree pretend to possess a 

 hair from the beard of their prophet, and the 

 people of the country firmly believe whatever 

 the Seyuds think fit to tell them. These 

 Seyuds are a privileged class ; indeed, were any 

 one to strike a Seyud he would probably be put 

 to death by the populace. Roree swarms with 

 them, and they are the most useless and lazy 

 members of the community, exercising a bane- 

 ful influence on the minds, whilst taxing the 

 pockets of the deluded people. Every evening 

 the streets swarm with Seyudnees, who wear a 

 loose white garment and a thick veil, and beg 

 from house to house. Notwithstanding their 

 professed sanctity, some of these ladies are, 

 however, said to be rather given to intrigue, 



