216 BEGGARS AND SEYUDNEES. 



Highness presented to little Mrs Gholaunij the 

 Englishwoman before mentioned, as married 

 to one of the Meer's suite, who displayed them 

 to Mr I and myself in wonder and admira- 

 tion, for verily the garment would have been a 

 goodly fit for the late Monsieur Lablache ! 



On the following morning we, after a slight 

 breakfast, proceeded to the Dohagha, which Is 

 just across the Meerwa canal, then a deep bed 

 of dry sand. On our way we found the streets 

 swarming with beggars and Seyudnees, the lat- 

 ter being holy women, who profess never to un- 

 cover their faces. These were awaiting a dis- 

 tribution of the flesh of several buffaloes which 

 had just been killed to feed the poor. The 

 Dohagha, a fine garden of many acres of mango, 

 orange, lemon, and pomegranate trees, contains 

 the walls of the former Residency, an excellent 

 house in the English style, but now gone to 

 ruin. Here we found an immense crowd as- 

 sembled to receive His Highness, Ameers, Tayee- 

 fahs of dancing girls, an Afghan prince, Moon- 

 shees, and musicians, all expectant of notice, 

 preferment, and reward : a couple of tents had 

 been pitched for His Highness' accommodation, 

 and a Landee, or temporary edifice of reeds, 



