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XIII. More about the Bujnurd Sheep. 



"Though hunting is an occupation which gives pleasure and delicious 

 food, yet it is more pleasant when indulged in after being disengaged 

 from the execution of affairs, to do which is your bounden duty." 

 'LETTERS OF THE EMPEROR AURUNGZEB.' 



THREE years later found me again among these 

 delectable mountains, this time on furlough and 

 bound for England. I had a shooting companion 

 in Captain Daukes, also on his way to the old 

 country after a spell of duty in Persia. We 

 had planned to go through Bujnurd to the 

 Turkoman country, and thence to Astrabad and 

 Bandar Gez on the Caspian. 



To pass from the country of the Kurds to 

 that of their hereditary enemies wanted some 

 < bandobast," to use that indispensable Indian 

 word, and in this my friend the Ilkhani of 

 Bujnurd, with his customary politeness and hos- 

 pitality, did all that was possible from his side. 

 A letter was sent to the frontier yuz-bashi, order- 

 ing him to escort us to within a stage of the 



