320 Journal kept while travelling in Seistan. QNo. 112. 



16th. — This morning I was hardly up, before the sirdar visited me, 



with a long train of followers ; he sat a fatiguingly 

 The Governor. . ... _. 



long time, talking nothings. He talks so fast, that 



his servants even confess that they only understand half he says, and 



as he mingles a large proportion of Pushtoo with his Persian, I found 



some difficulty in following him: he has a pleasing appearance and 



manner. 



I rode out in the evening ; the town is a poor collection of huts, but 

 in the fort are some twenty houses of Hindoos, who 

 To e w C n! Pti0n ° fthe are perhaps the most contented of Shah Kamraun's 

 subjects ; not that they are better treated than the 

 rest, but that the oppression to which they are subjected seems less, 

 and tolerable in comparison with what they dread from Sheah intoler- 

 ance, should the Persians gain the ascendant. 



On my return home I sent my head Mirza, Mahomed Juher, to 

 the newly-discovered Prince, with respectful messages, and an apology 

 for not calling, on the plea of my being a traveller, having nothing 

 fit to present, &c. The fact was, my tosha khaneh was not large, and 

 it was necessary to husband my resources. 



The prince at Subzawar is the youngest son of Shah Kamraun, and 



is named Zemaun. One of these princes is attached 

 Shahzadeh Zemaun. , . ,, . _ ~, . „ 



to every government under the rule of khan Kam- 



Condition of the raun, to assist in the administration of justice, since 

 princes. no one ^ ft p u dd 0Z y e could execute a criminal with- 



out fear of retaliation. When the real governor wishes to punish an 

 offender, he sends him to the prince, who, dressed all in black, in the 

 robes of punishment, poshaki gauzub, himself superintends the execu- 

 tion ; besides the more usual punishment of cutting 

 off the ears and lips, slitting the nose, &c. tortures 

 of several kinds have been common. 



Syud Mahomed paid me another visit in the afternoon, as I had 

 announced my intention of pursuing my journey to-morrow. He shewed 

 me a letter from his father, begging that I would 

 Mlhomed°Khan! permit one Hubeeboollah Khan to accompany me to 

 Seistan, that he might through my influence pur- 

 chase grain, which at present he said, from Shah Pusund Khan's being 

 unfriendly to him, he could not do. He also requested, that I would 



