1841.] Roree in Kin/ poor. 399 



crescent. Silver anklets are common, and females who are too poor to 

 buy ivory bangles wear bone , poverty often prevents their appearing in 

 gay coloured raiment, which is nearly confined to the public women, but 

 they display their fondness for trinkets, by frequent visits to pedlar's 

 shops, where mirrors, combs, leaden rings set with false stones, and other 

 female ornaments, are sold. These shops are crowded with the wives and 

 daughters of tradesmen, who pass much time turning over and trying on 

 baubles, and I observed many sorrowful faces when, they relinquished a 

 favourite trinket from inability to pay for it. 



In the fish market, a number of women congregate round people who 

 sell Singhara, a fish like a shark considered to be very unwholesome 

 eating, but preferred for its cheapness. The fish is cut in pieces, and 

 the women go provided with small bowls to receive any quantity they 

 require for their families. 



Roree is divided into 46 Muhullas or quarters, and I add a list, and 

 the description of inhabitants in each, which may be received, I think, 

 as a close approximation to truth. 



1. — Kanoongo,* Government Officers, Kardars, Moonshees, Putwarees, 

 &c. 



2. — Wutchoowaree, goldsmiths, &c. 



3. — Suthdura, M. polishers and setters of stones, silk-weavers. 



4. — Thushar (the name of a tribe of Moosulmans), M. cotton weavers, 

 agriculturists, &c. 



5. — Arain Khudwala, M. gardeners and fruiterers. 



6. — Tukkur (a hill), H. Bahmuns, about 22 families of Hindoo shop- 

 keepers. 



7. — Musund, name of a tribe of Hindoo Gooroos. 



8. — Arain (2d) Dulewala, name of a tribe of Moosulmans, M. farmers 

 and agriculturists. 



9. — Arain (3d) Ootradee, name of a tribe of Moosulmans, M. Farmers 

 and agriculturists. 



10.— Durgah, M. Moojawars, shopkeepers, cloth sellers, and labourers. 



11. — Chyn Rae (name of a wealthy Hindoo living), H. shopkeepers 

 and others. 



12. — Chubootru, H. shopkeepers. 



13. — Suyud Yakoob Khan Bazar, M. singers and musicians, H. shop- 

 keepers, &c. 



* H. denotes that the Muhulla is inhabited by Hindoos and M. by Moosulmans. 



