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father, but his education has been lamentably 

 neglected, and he writes Persian indifferently. 



Meer Khan Mahomed, the "fat boy" of the 

 family, is even more ignorant than his brother 

 Meer Jehan Mahomed. These young men are 

 by the Meer's second wife, and their manners 

 are not in a degree more polished than those of 

 the falconers, their ordinary companions, as 

 they never associate with the two elder bro- 

 thers, who appear to look down upon them on 

 account of the lowness of their mother's origin. 



The three sisters of Meers Shah Nowaz and 

 Fyze Mahomed are, I was told, rather good- 

 looking; the European woman who was mar- 

 ried to a Mahomedan in the Meer's service, Mrs 

 Gholaum Husseyn, was my informant, and she 

 saw a good deal of the ladies, having resided 

 with them for several weeks at a time in the 

 Zunana. They are rather old for unmarried 

 Indian ladies, the eldest being above twenty-two 

 years of age ; she describes them as extremely 

 kind and good-natured, as are also all the elder 

 ladies. The only thing she objected to was 

 their having her little daughter's nose bored, 

 and a large nose-ring fixed therein, during the 

 time she was on a visit with them. They also 



