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ly adopt the Mahomedan dress and manner 

 as to be scarcely recognizable. The Hindoos 

 of Sindh care very little for caste prejudices; 

 in fact, the force of circumstances has com- 

 pelled them to throw overboard most of their 

 scruples on the subject of defilement. They 

 are generally of fair complexion ; some few 

 live in comfortable style in the large cities, but 

 the ordinary Bunny as in every bazaar are 

 much the same mean and cringing race ; filthy 

 in their persons, and still more so in their 

 dwellings than Mahomedans themselves. The 

 Hindoo women dress precisely the same as 

 the Mahomedans. As a class the Hindoos of 

 Sindh are far less respectable than those of 

 Hindoostan; but it is only justice to them to 

 declare that I never met with anything but 

 good faith in pecuniary transactions, on the 

 part of the Sindh Sahocars, through whom I 

 remitted considerable sums. Indeed their 

 honesty in such transactions is proverbial. 



In the countries north-west of the Indus 

 the Hindoos are far less particular in matters 

 of caste and religion than their stricter brethren 

 in India ; but possibly this may have arisen 

 from the persecution they have experienced on 



