206 AMUSEMENTS DURING CONVALESCENCE. 



ness became alarmed, and an express was 

 des^oatched for the staff sm^geon at Shikar- 

 poor, whoj on seeing the young prince, con- 

 firmed what I had told them, ordered their 

 dressings to be removed, poultices to be ap- 

 plied, and cleanliness to be attended to ; and 

 the last, I confess, was a very necessary in- 

 junction. The poor Hujams were in an awful 

 fright lest the Meer should punish them for 

 their want of skill, and very furious he was 

 at the moment, but Meer Ali Moorad's anger 

 as speedily subsides as it boils up, and I 

 soon pacified him in regard to them; but 

 the fine present which they expected to re- 

 ceive on completion of the cure was lost to 

 tliem and their heirs for ever. ^ 



During the young prince's convalescence, I 

 witnessed how such youths are amused on the 

 like occasions ; one morning a young wild sow, 

 about two-thirds grown, with a sliglit wound 

 in one of her thighs, was brought in from 

 the Meer's camp, and being tied to a tree 

 was baited with savage dogs, until death 

 ended her torments ; on other mornings 

 partridges and crows, the latter with their 

 bills broken, were the objects of torture, and 



