SSUMAO TO TALI 



with feathers of the Lady Amherst pheasant. Their loads for the 

 most part consisted of small wedges of iron, like bricks, sometimes of 

 bales of cotton. In one day we counted as many as one hundred and 

 fifty animals. Now and then a rising ground was capped by a mud- 

 built watch-tower, in shape like a three-sided sentry-box. lo feet high, 



Carriers met on the Road. 



with loopholes, probably relics of the Mussulman war. At greater 



distances apart upon the hilltops rose obelisks of dazzling white 



masonry. I rode up to one, and found it to be quadrilateral, about 



40 feet high, surmounted by a ball, to which a prickly pear-tree had 



by some means attached itself, perhaps seeded by the many black- 



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