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Close to Jiinaghar the land became still richer, and 

 the road lay between mango-trees and fruit-gardens. 

 At Jiinaghar I found the bungalow for travellers 

 occupied by the Assistant Political Agent for the dis- 

 trict, Major Le Geyt, and his lady ; and commodious 

 tents were pitched for me on the other side of the 

 city, under some mimosa and large banian trees, just 

 inside the walls of the city at the north gate, above 

 which there were some fine airy rooms that would 

 make a pleasant residence in hot weather. The walls 

 of Jiinaghar enclose a vast circuit of open land oc- 

 cupied by kitchen -gardens and scrub-jungle. My 

 tents were about two miles away from the city ; and 

 though there was an octroi guard of about twenty 

 Arabs and Belooches at the north gate, a special 

 guard of eight sepoys, with rifles and sword-bayonets, 

 and under an officer of the 2s r awab, was sent down 

 every night to guard my tents. Possibly this may 

 have been to protect me, not so much from ordi- 

 nary thieves or from Wiaincutiias, as from the guard 

 at the gate. These latter were certainly exceedingly 

 piou's men, so far as outward forms went, but neither 

 their visages nor their demeanour were calculated to 

 inspire confidence. Regularly every morning and 

 evening, and sometimes even during the day, they 

 engaged in long devotional services, kneeling with 

 their faces towards Mecca, and uttering their prayers 

 and chants in a sonorous way which would have de- 

 lighted the ear of a ritualist Their piety, however, 



