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According to the custom of the country, we also 

 dismounted and walked towards them. Shaking 

 hands all round, we begged them to remount, 

 and doing the same, asked them to conduct us 

 to our place of residence, which we had begged 

 might be outside the city walls. 



Mahomed Unis, a particularly gentlemanly 

 nice - looking man, was handsomely dressed in 

 a cloth choga, with the high boots of the country 

 (a sort of blucher-boot, made without a sole, 

 like a moccasin ; over this is worn a high-heeled 

 slipper, which is kicked off on entering a room), 

 and a white muslin turban very neatly put on. 

 His manner was particularly good, and we took 

 a great fancy to him at once. The Kashmiri 

 Aksakal had only recently been raised to that 

 post, and though he seemed a very good sort 

 of man, did not show the same breeding and 

 manner as the other. He was dressed in the 

 same way. The rest of the party consisted of 

 attendants, two of whom spoke Hindustani ; and 

 these, we were given to understand, were placed 

 at our disposal during our stay at Yarkand, 

 and would do whatever we told them. They 

 conducted us round the city walls, until we came 

 to the old or Turki city of Yarkand, passing 



