160 MAERIAGE PROCESSION. 



music in the middle of the night, and on 

 inquiry found that a marriage procession of 

 villagers was passing through the city on 

 their return homewards. These were four 

 camels with Kejawas, or panniers, in which 

 females usually travel in Sindh. Some of 

 these camels carried four, others three, wo- 

 men, and a host of children. At the head 

 of the procession was carried a dholl, or deep- 

 toned bass drum, which marked the time, 

 and the females chanted in chorus in a 

 most pleasing style ; as their voices were 

 really harmonious, and there was none of 

 that screaming for effect, to which most of 

 the Indian singers are so prone. 



As soon as the Meerwah was full, the 

 Khyrpooreans feasted upon fish, of wliich a 

 great variety is to be found, but none of 

 them very much to my taste, as they are 

 all more or less bony and some extremely 

 coarse ; but Sindhians are not very nice, in 

 fact they will eat anything that comes in 

 their way ; even the flesh of alligator, 

 which is peculiarly dry, hard, and flavourless, 

 is never thrown away, and the Boolun, or 

 river-hog, Anglice the porpoise, is, I am told, 



