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and not for riding. The Meer's horses are not 

 generally shod ; indeed, shoes are almost un- 

 necessary where stones are so rarely met with 

 as in His Highness' territory. The asses of 

 Sindh are even smaller than those of India, but 

 the white ass of Khorassan is a very superior 

 animal, and costs from 70 to 100 rupees. 



Having made a Persian translation of the 

 memorandum that I had prepared for Meer Ali 

 Moorad, and of which he had approved, assur- 

 ing me he woidd carry out the several changes 

 therein mentioned, I mounted my new steed, 

 and taking a carpet-bag, with writing materials 

 and a few necessaries, cantered off to camp, 

 which I found very near the place where His 

 Highness had halted on the j^revious day. He 

 had not, however, returned from hunting, and 

 thus I had ample time to look about me. No- 

 thing could be more unpretending than the 

 tents of Meer Ali Moorad and his sons; the 

 former was a very small two-poled tent, with 

 barely room for his charpoy at one end, and it 

 contained no other furniture. The only mark 

 of superiority was a kanaut, or screen, forming 

 an enclosure about it ; his sons' tents were 

 pitched here and there as fancy dictated, and 



