202 KHYIIPOOR. 



On awaking at daylight I confess tliat I 

 did not like the aspect of domestic affairs. 

 Oiir Portuguese servant, moreover, was sulky, 

 and disgusted with the appearance of things, 

 and well might he be so, poor fellow ; but 

 after a little while a bheesty, or water-car- 

 rier, a sweeper, and a scampish boy to run 

 of errands, were added to our establishment. 

 These cleaned out a room in our house, kin- 

 dled a large fire on the hearth, and having 

 most of the indispensables with us, we soon 

 achieved a tolerable breakfast. Shortly after 

 came a friendly letter from the Meer, saying ho 

 should be at home in the evening, when every- 

 thing we required would be provided, and all 

 possible attention paid to om' comfort ; the 

 messenger, moreover, brought a bag of rupees. 

 In the course of the morning arrived our friend 

 the Shahzada Sooltaun Jan, who, observing 

 that we had not a chair to sit on, very kindly 

 sent us a couple, with a sutrungee, or large cot- 

 ton carpet, for our sitting-room. From the 

 Shahzada we heard a deplorable, though, alas, 

 very correct, account of the Khyrpoor bazaar, 

 wherein neither fowls nor eggs were procm'able, 

 and the only meat to be found was of the most 



