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of God. This I continued to do for a full hour and a half, until my 

 neck was nearly broken, and until I was completely exhausted from 

 profuse perspiration, my confessor during this time being silent, and 

 buried, I strongly suspected in sound sleep; at last awaking and 

 perceiving my uneasiness, he removed the quilt, and telling me to hold 

 my head up, asked what I had seen ! I replied he knew as well as I did, 

 and that it was not proper to reveal my stories ; he smiled and said, he 

 had great hopes of my becoming an adept. As I had taken with me a 

 ducat, some sugar, and a piece of muslin for the saint, instead of peegash, 

 I that evening received an entertainment of coarse rice. The old gentle- 

 man whose neck has absolutely grown stiff in the position he constantly 

 keeps it in, was very anxious to see that the Dezakees did not impose 

 on me, or cheat me in purchasing my madder, and offered to become 

 my broker. I apologized and said, I could not trouble him with my 

 worldly concerns, and that I would only do so with regard to my 

 spiritual affairs ; the truth is, I was afraid of his taking a fancy to 

 sundry articles among my goods. I sold my madder at the rate of 

 10 Dezak maunds the ducat, and discharged the two matchlockmen 

 I had brought with me from Panjgoor, giving them as part of their 

 hire, one of my camels, which had suffered much from the cold. On 

 taking leave of the Peer, he gave me a letter to Meer Mahommed Shah 

 of Sib, and tied his own turban round my head. I remained 12 days 

 at Dezak, having during this time despatched my manuscripts, for fear 

 of accidents, to Gwadar on the 18th. 



16th December. — Started and proceeded due South across a moun- 

 tain Pass extending for 4 kos, the first and last 5 kos of which are over 

 a good road. This mountain can be turned both to the East and West, 

 and a good road thus procured the whole way. Sib is bounded on the 



East by Dehsk ; on the West by Pas-i-Kok, inhabited by Bar- 

 bib. 



hanzais and Badowzais, which latter are originally of the tribe 



of the Seer of Sheeraz, who emigrated from that place in pursuit of the 

 Koords of Sarhad, with whom they had a blood feud, and who owe 

 them a blood debt; on the North by the detached mountains; on the 

 South by a mountain, on the other side of which are the villages of 

 Afshan and Erifshand. 



The village of Sib is a small one, and has only been raised into im- 

 portance bv the forays of its chief, Mahommed Shah, son of Shah 



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