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Mahomedans at Baroche and Surat are a dignified, polite, and re- 

 spectable people; the manners and dress of the females are deli- 

 neated in the prophet Ezekiel's portrait of an oriental lady: " I 

 clothed thee with broidered work, I girded thee with fine linen, 

 and covered thee with silk: 1 decked thee with ornaments; I put 

 bracelets upon thine hands, and a chain on thy neck; I put a 

 jewel on thy forehead, and ear-rings in thine ears, and a beautiful 

 crown upon thine head. Thus wast thou decked with gold and 

 silver'; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered 

 work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil; and thou wast 

 exceeding beautiful/' 



In the Baroche purgunna were many families of the Rajhpoots, 

 or Hajhputs, a noble race of Hindoos, divided into distinct 

 tribes, and settled in various districts, chiefly in the northern 

 parts of Hindostan. Some of the highest distinction trace their 

 origin to the suryabans, or children of the sun, and in that re- 

 spect vie with the incas of Peru. This celestial descent is con- 

 fined to few families; but the Rajhpoots all pride themselves 

 on their noble ancestry, and seldom disgrace their pedigree 

 by an ignoble action. I became acquainted with several in 

 Guzerat who confirmed these sentiments, and 1 knew some of 

 their females, who considered themselves very superior to the 

 surrounding Hindoos. The Rajhpoots make the best soldiers 

 in the country; imbued with a noble spirit, great energy, and 

 generally of an athletic form, they have the grand essentials of 

 a military character, and are highly respected by all the other 

 castes. 



Some of the Rajhpoot tribes can furnish from twenty to thirty 



