CHAPTER V. 



Antelope Hunting — Bad Government — Eilling the Meerwah — Hin- 

 doo Ladies Bathing — Night Shooting — Killing a Tiger with an Ar- 

 row — Marriage Procession — Bursting of the KuUoree — Ruinous 

 Walls — Habits of Meer Ali Moorad — Hote Singh — Religion of 

 the Sindhians — Shiahs and Soonies — Evening Prayer — The Bam- 

 zan Festival — Pasting Unfashionable at Khyrpoor — Tiger Shot 

 — Khoodbah — Buckrecd Pestival. 



On the morning after the entertainment Meer 

 Shah Nowaz was obliged to go out to his 

 father's camp, much to his own disinclination ; 

 but Meer Fyze Mahomed was allowed to remain 

 at home, to attend, I suppose, to the wants of 

 his newly-born son, the presumptive heir to His 

 Highness. The Meer, on his grand hunting 

 excursions, always insists on the attendance of 

 his sons, much to the annoyance of the two 

 elder princes, who are rarely allowed to fire at 

 hog, and thus find little amusement in being in 

 attendance on their father; but Meer Jehan 

 Mahomed is an exception, as I have seen him 



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