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a Moor, although his father and mother were heathens.! 
He embraced a darwesh sort of life, a lazy kind of exis- 
tence with a semblance of religion and holiness, and, as is 
known, from small beginnings he succeeded through craft 
and cruelty in becoming very great. 
Equebar is tall, broad-shouldered, but bandy-legged.? His 
what inclined to the right. With the exception of his mous- 
tache, which he keeps short and trimmed, he shaves his 
beard entirely, after the Turkish fashion. He lets his hair 
whilst his breeches cover his heels. His slippers are not of 
the usual shape, but after a pattern of his own invention. 
He adorns his head with strings of pearls and precious stones 
of great value. At his girdle he always keeps a dagger, often 
Kush or Kesh.—His father’s name is given as Amir Turaghai; his 
mother’s as Takina Khatin in Kernz’s Orient. Biogr. Dict., s. v. Amir 
aimir. Some say he wasa shepherd’s son; others that he was 
descended from Chingiz Khan. 
1 io was applied to Hindiis and others in contradistinction from 
the ‘‘ Moors’’ or Muhammadans. We translate by heathen, gentile, 
gentoo. : : [ mediocre. 
2 Peruschi (p. 7) omits ‘* bandy-legged ’’ and hasinstead : di statura 
8 Compare with Mong. Leg. _Comm., fol. 1066.4-107a.1; ‘* Erat 
sita . 
humeris, incurvis cruribus, et leviter inflexis, et ad equitandum accom- 
» modico nigrore suffuso, obstipo capite, et 
xterum humerum inflexo, fronte lata, et aperta, micantibus 
