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ments at tlie corners and ends of tlie build- 

 ing. The bungalow contains but little fur- 

 niture, though that little was once on a 

 time extremely handsome. The chairs have 

 all vanished, but one or two large couches 

 still remain ; though the rich crimson satin 

 damask wherewith they were covered has 

 been ripped off, doubtless to make into 

 jackets, by some of the Meer's domestics. 

 His Highness, during his brief visits, never 

 occupies the house ; but passes his days in a 

 Landee in front, and sleeps in a small tent 

 close to the building, in which his followers 

 are accommodated. The Meer is supposed 

 to have a superstitious dread of sleeping in 

 a house, lest of its falling, in consequence of 

 his father, Meer Sohrab, having been killed 

 by a fall from a window. The walls of 

 the several apartments are painted in fresco, 

 in a great variety of patterns, and the ceil- 

 ings the same, but the central part of that of 

 the " Detvan-i-Aimij^ or " Hall of Audience," 

 represents purple enamel ; this colour (2^117'- 

 imra) is peculiarly fine in Sindh, and, with 

 the blue meeua, is said to have been im- 

 ported from Persia by one of the Ameers, 



