42 CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE. 



rose to distinction, and as confidential servants of 

 the princes exercised much authority over their 

 inferiors : Meer Shah Nowaz lias a confidential 

 servant of this description — a sv/aggering, 

 saucy fellow, who is supposed to rob his 

 own master not a little. Occasionally a 

 Sindhee Moslem marries a Sidyanee, and the 

 offspring is called a Gaddo. The issue of 

 a Gaddo by a Sindhee Moslem is called a 

 Kambiani. 



The Sindhee is much taller and more robust 

 than the natives of India generally. His com- 

 plexion is dark, with splendid teeth, and in 

 build strong and muscular, but idle and 

 apathetic, cowardly, addicted to intoxication, 

 immoral in the extreme, unclean in his person, 

 and invariably a liar.* His character is supposed 

 to have been debased by the oppressive treat- 

 ment he has experienced at the hands of the 

 hardy and valorous hill tribes, and by his 

 perpetual dependence on those who have 

 plundered and impoverished him to the utmost. 

 His Highness Meer Ali Moorad places no 

 confidence in either Sindhees or Beloochees. 

 His soldiery, as I have before said, are all mer- 



"* Bm-ton. 



