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and assistants. The Meer, who is ever courteous, 

 especially to English gentlemen, directed me to 

 send off a Sowar to Sukkur, where tlie railway 

 staff were halted, with a letter of invitation for 

 them to join him on the following day, and 

 several of them accordingly came over to break- 

 fast. Unfortunately, we were not in very good 

 shooting ground; however, Mr Brunton made a 

 tolerable bag, and His Highness pressed him to 

 remain till next day, when we were to beat his 

 favourite moharees on the island opposite 

 Nauchee. Mr Brunton had, however, sent on 

 his tents and baggage one stage on the way to 

 Mooltan ; thus he was unable to avail himself of 

 the Meer's hospitality, which I was very sorry 

 for, as to fall in with so clever and agreeable a 

 man as Mr Brunton was no ordinary acquisi- 

 tion in the Sindh jungles. 



On the following morning, I was informed 

 that His Highness had ordered breakfast at a 

 certain well about six miles distant, and pre- 

 sently a horseman came galloping in from camp 

 to say that he desired my attendance as soon as 

 possible. Accordingly I proceeded there, and 

 found the Meer sitting in a very small tent 

 with his Mooktyar Kar, Moorad Khan, Hote 



