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are all very bold and independent, without being in- 

 solent ; treating Europeans as equals, but taking care 

 not to break any of our regulations. They are also 

 very conversible, and have many stories to tell about 

 the dangers they escaped on the way down with their 

 horses, from the Beluches, whom they both fear and 

 abominate, calling them Adam-khoor, or men-eaters, 

 an appellation which, in its literal meaning, is quite 

 undeserved. These last mentioned are evidently quite 

 out of their element on British territory, and do not 

 show to advantage as commercial men. Like Catiline, 

 the Beluch is alieni appetens, sui profusus ; he likes 

 to take violently, and he likes to give patronisingly ; 

 but this matter of exchanging horses and dogs for 

 Company's rupees, and these rupees again for cotton 

 cloth, lead, and gunpowder, strikes him as rather be- 

 neath his dignity, and makes him think uneasily of 

 his fierce forefathers. By way of being independent, 

 he is savage and surly. His broad hairy chest, and 

 long sinewy arms, are those of a man whose boast is, 

 that in close combat he can strangle his foes, or tear 

 out their windpipes. Even the boldest of us would 

 shudder at the idea of being overpowered by that 

 demon, and of looking up hopelessly for mercy into 

 the wild-beast eyes which glare ferociously under his 

 shaggy brows, and villanously low forehead. Even 

 the Pathans, however, are rather savage men, though 

 they dare not put their peculiar notions into practice 

 when, as merchants, they are travelling or sojourning 



