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really alarmed, and made most abject apologies for not having given 

 Effect. me a place in the tent before ; I took advantage of this im- 

 pression, and insisted on their champooing me until I fell asleep. The 

 next morning on getting up, my hosts complained of a head-ache, not 

 being aware that they were intoxicated, and begged me for God's sake 

 to blow on their temples. I called for some butter-milk, and writing 

 on a slip of paper what they thought was a charm, immersed it, and 

 ordered them to drink it off. After a short time they of course felt 

 cooled and refreshed, and brought me a sheep as a present, and insisted 

 my being their guest for that night also. 



2nd January, 1839. — After being stopped by my hosts to pray for 



them I set out, and proceeding over a good road 8 kos, arrived at the 



. village of Erindagan, where I no sooner had arrived than 



I was surrounded by a host of applicants for charms, for 



which they paid liberally in fowls, rice, &c. &c. 



I here felt diminution in the severity of the cold. As I was proceeding 

 next day on my journey, I was stopt by a man who entreated me first 

 to cast a devil out of his wife. The lady it appeared to me was mere- 

 ly trying the extent of her lord's affection, and intended to judge of it 

 by the degree of solicitude (evinced for her recovery.) Fainting and 

 hysterics not being the fashion in Beloochistan, the ladies are obliged 

 to have recourse to devils. I immediately caused her to be held 

 down, and lighting a charm rolled up in rags, held it under her nose 

 until she fairly repented of her experiment, and until I had impressed 

 the spectator with a proper sense of my miraculous powers. I must give 

 the lady great credit, however, for the zest with which she kept up the 

 farce, speaking all the time as the devil within her, and at last swearing 

 by king Solomon, whom the natives suppose to have been omnipotent 

 over gins and evil spirits, that he (the devil) would never again enter 

 into the woman. I was so pestered during the day for charms, that I 

 determined on dropping a little of the Peerzada. 



Erindagan contains about 50 huts, and the cultivation of wheat, 



Cultivation, rice, barley, and juwaree is comparatively extensive. 



4th January. — Proceeded 10 kos over a difficult and sometimes hilly 



Apta. roa d to Apta, a place well cultivated from running water, 



containing 200 huts and groves of dates, and furnishing provisions in 



plenty. The chief is Hussun Khan. 



