CONTE>'TS. 



CHAPTER V. 



Antelope Himting — Bad Government — Filling the Meer- 

 wah — Hindoo Ladies Bathing — Night-shooting — Killing 

 a Tiger with an Arrow — Marriage Procession— Bursting 

 of the Knlloree — Euinous "Walls — Habits of Meer Ali 

 Moorad — Hote Singh — Eeligion of the Sindhians — Shiahs 

 and Soonies — Evening Prayei' — The Eamzan Festival — 

 Pasting Unfashionable at Khyrpoor — Tiger Shot — Khood- 

 bah — Buckreed Pestival 147 



CHAPTER YI. 



Mohurrum — Syed Jaffer Ali Shah — Murseeahs — Procession 

 — Dool-Dool — Chanting of Women — Grallantries of Hindoo 

 Ladies — Eloquence of Syed Mehr-i-Duri*ya Shah — IMourn- 

 ing Garments — Mortifying the Plesh — Hyderabad Puthan 

 Pight — Sindhian Superstitions — Magicians — Magic Mir- 

 ror — The Meer IMoonshee — Science of Hazirat — "Wasps 

 discover Pilferers — Evil Spmts around a Sick Bed — 

 A "Wounded Prince — Amusements during convales- 

 cence ........ 177 



CHAPTER VII. 



Meer Ali Moorad — British Breaches of Paith — Maharanees 

 of Nagpore — Sindiah — Jhansi — Carnatic Stipendiaries — 

 Prince Azeem Jah — King of Oudh — Sir Charles Na- 

 pier's Prophetic AVarnings — Causes of the Insurrection 

 — Mr Layard — Peeling of the People — Finance — "Waste- 

 ful Expenditure — Salaries of Pondicherry Officials — Sir 

 Charles Trevelyan — Mr Bright' s Speech on Indian Re- 

 form — Improved Policy — Native Qualifications — Rath- 

 borne's Report — Demeanour towards Natives — Our Go- 

 vernment of Sindh — Beneficial Results — Departure from 

 Khyrpoor — Adieu to Sindh .... 210 



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