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home from an interview with Nasseer Khan, would not for several days 

 after open his lips to a soul, not even to the members of his own fami- 

 ly. On his being pressed by his half-frightened friends to disclose the 

 reason of his extraordinary silence, he sharply observed, " How can 

 I speak to such dirt as you, with the same mouth that has been open- 

 ed to address the Great Khan." 



The Brahoees looked upon the descendants of Nasseer Khan as their 



spiritual as well as temporal chief, until the charm was 

 Reverence. 



partly broken by Mehrab Khan, by the number of cruel 



executions ordered by him : but even in his time, the wild Brahoees 

 from the hills, were in the habit of kissing the threshold of the citadel 

 gate. 



An anecdote is also told, that Nasseer Khan, during the early part of 

 his government kept a tame tiger, which he used con- 

 stantly to visit for the following reason, which he assigned 

 in reply to a questioner : " Whenever I feel rebellious, I look at its 

 eyes, and they remind me of Nadir Shah's, and I am immediately quiet- 

 ed and made loyal again." He also never lost his boyish dread of Mulla 

 Haizat's admonitions. The son of the latter, Mulla Futteh Mahommed, 

 after his father's death, was wukeel during twenty-four years of Nasseer 

 Khan's reign. 



When Nasseer Khan was getting old, fancying his end approaching, 

 he reflected that his sons were mere children, and foresaw that the 

 Sindians, on his death, would wrench from them the port of Karachee 



and the Koorg: he therefore determined, contrary to the 

 Cession. 



advice of many of his self- sufficient courtiers, voluntarily 



to cede the above places, in favour of their former owners, which he ac- 

 cordingly did by treaty, after several missions and deputations, had been 

 interchanged. 



Pottinger mentions, that Bahram Khan made his appearance in 



Balochisthan during the reien of Nasseer Khan, and 

 Bahram Khan. 5 S 



created some disturbances : but being defeated at 



Koohak by the latter in an engagement, again retired to Cabool, to 



which place he had originally accompanied his sister Bibee Jan. 



Nasseer Khan had nine wives and concubines ; for many years none 



of his sons by them grew up, but all died at an early age. 



He had nine daughters ; four of which he gave in marriage 



