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the part of the Mahomedans. But few Brah- 

 muns and Grooroos are to bo met with in Sindh, 

 and it was only at Shikarpoor that they were 

 allowed to celebrate their festivals; but in 

 the districts under the British Government 

 those restrictions are now removed, and Meer 

 Ali Moorad is desirous of affording all possible 

 encouragement to a people who mainly supply 

 him with the sinews of war. 3Ioreover his 

 Mooktyar Kar and others of his principal and 

 most trusted servants are Hindoos. To those 

 acquainted with Khyrpoor I need hardly 

 mention that I particularly refer to the Meer 

 Moonshee Kissundass, his brother Bissundass, 

 with their nephews and sons. Kissundass is a 

 man of first-rate ability, and his brother is but 

 little, if at all, inferior in qualifications. They 

 are respected by all classes, and are, I believe, 

 as honest men as it is possible to find in the 

 unhealthy atmosphere of any Indian Durbar. 



In every corner of Sindh and Beloochistan, 

 however small the village, is to be found a 

 Hindoo, with his petty shop of groceries; in 

 his own person practising the most intense self- 

 denial till his means have increased. These 

 men moreover make themselves so useful in the 



