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in office. The accusation was, I believe, partly true, but his enemies ex- 

 aggerated his offence. 



Hindoos do not hire barbers permanently, and give them a pys for each 

 visit. Suyuds and wealthy Moosulmans have barbers on their establish- 

 ments, who live, however, in the bazar, and practise their vocation else- 

 where during their leisure hours. They yet 8 or 10 rupees and clothes 

 every six months. The barber cooks the meat, rice, and sweetmeats for 

 a marriage feast among Moosulmans, and receives for his services 4 rupees, 

 a complete suit of caste off cloths including turban and slippers, and food 

 during the period he is employed. He also shaves, washes, and decorates 

 the bridegroom. He nets usually four or five rupees at a wedding, but 

 it quite depends on the means of the family. The prince gives him 40 or 

 50 rupees. The barber carries the torch at Hindoo bridals (burat) which 

 last from one to four days, according to the wealth and means of the bride- 

 groom. For this service he gets a present of three rupees, and four pys 

 from each family of the bridegroom's friends. He is an important mem- 

 ber of a household, and Solyman, the prince's barber, is I believe, the only 

 person allowed to serve him with water to drink. 



There are eight families of Mootrib (Moosulmans singers and musi- 

 cians,) who come from Sehwan, and attend marriages. The men are 

 admitted to the bridegroom's apartments and their women to those of the 

 bride. The men sing and beat the dhol and nuggaru (kettle drum). The 

 women sing and beat the dhol only. The bridegroom and his friends give 

 a few pys to each Mootrib on the days they attend. 



The Chokro or cleaner of privies eats carrion, and his occupation is dis- 

 tinct from that of the shekhree or sweeper, who is more choice in his 

 diet. Families give the Chokro from five to eight pys a month and food 

 on the days he attend?, which is not oftener than once a week at some 

 houses, and morning and evening at others. He also frequently receives 

 a cast off suit of clothes once a year. A respectable land owner of Suk- 

 hur of my acquaintance, gives the Chokro who attends at his house morn- 

 ing and evening, two rupees a month and food consisting of a seer of 

 wheat or joowaree, and two pys instead of bor. Some people give grain 

 at the end of a month (30 seers and 60 pys.) The Chokro employs his 

 leisure hours in making screens or tatties of Surkund, a reed, and earns 

 by both occupations about 2| annas or 4 pence a day. 



Shekhree or sweepers, are not kept on an establishment as servants, but 

 go round the city daily, and get from one to four pys for cleaning and 

 sweeping a house, and earn thus from eight to fourteen pys a day. Shop- 

 keepers usually sweep their own shops, and the part of the street im- 



