44 WANT OF EDUCATION. 



it show. For my own part, after many attempts 

 to display my manners I contented myself witli 

 inquiries after liealtli and happiness, and gave 

 the rest up in despair of ever attaining the 

 requisite volubility to keep pace with my friends 

 in the valley of the Indus. 



Education is very limited in the Khyrpoor 

 dominions, and as the schoolmasters are ex- 

 tremely incompetent, it is not likely to extend 

 until Meer Ali Moorad's finances will permit of 

 his carrying into execution his projected re- 

 forms. As a people too the Beloochees are 

 singularly illiterate ; indeed several of the 

 Talpoor family were, it is declared by an 

 eminent writer, unable to read and write. Like 

 the Europeans during the middle ages, the 

 Beloochee prefers the pleasures of the chase to 

 any other, thinks tlie training of a hawk a 

 more enviable acquirement than reading or 

 writing, and would rather be able to cut a sheep 

 in two at a blow than be master of all the 

 sciences ever studied in Boghdad or Bokhara. 

 Meer Ali Moorad is, however, an exception to 

 the above as regards his attainments; he writes 

 a peculiarly fine hand, is deeply read in Persian 

 lore, and had his naturally excellent abilities 



