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set of silver-handled knives have nearly all dis- 

 appeared, having been given by His Highness 

 to falconers, or others, when in a liberal mood. 

 The Sindhees have a small receptacle for a 

 knife in their sword scabbards, and observing 

 one day a Khorassan Sowar with what appeared 

 to be a silver-mounted dessert knife, I inquired 

 how he came by it, and was told it was a 

 present from the Meer, and that he valued it 

 highly both for the excellence of the blade and 

 the beauty of the handle, winding up his 

 panegyric with loJmt acha, oostacl Jca Jcam hy. 

 "It is very fine. It is the work of a master.'' 

 One evening my pillao was brought in a plated 

 dish, and for want of any other vessel to con- 

 tain water, the Meer's servants brought it in 

 the cover of the dish itself. The only light 

 I had in camp was a small iron lamp on a 

 spike about two feet high, which was stuck 

 in the ground and fed with mustard-seed oil, 

 to the great annoyance of my olfactory nerves. 

 This, however, was precisely similar to what 

 the Meer had in his own tent. 



The doors of the houses are of the very 

 roughest make, in which streugtli alone seems 

 to be the consideration of the artificer. The 



