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fame we have obferved through the whole country^ after leaving the 

 lower parts oi Sirmor; a jacket or drefs of blanket, tying like the 

 qommon hindu angerka, around the waift and open down the right 

 breaft, light in the body and on the arms, but with fliort fkirts all 

 round, very ample, and gaihered in folds like the Scotch phelibeg ; 

 around their waift they wear a cemerbend, either of woollen (luff, 

 or of rope formed of goat's hair neatly plaited. They wear drawers 

 or trowfers very loofe to the calf of the leg, but tighter, and fallin''' 

 in numerous ereafes, to the heal; a piece of blanket fluff, fomewhat 

 lighter than the reft^ is worn round the fhoulders like the Scotch plaid, 

 and is ufed to keep the body dry-, or the head from the heat, ai rain 

 or fun may require ; on their head they wear a black cap of hair or 

 wool fitted to the fcull, and ending in a fmall point.. The wool from 

 which they manufa<fture thefe cloaths„ is of extreme coarfenefs ; very 

 far inferior to that met within BiJeheVy or any of the hill flates to the 

 weftward, which fometimes was wove inta blankets of confiderable 

 beauty and finenefs ; their colours are only two, a dark brown, and 

 the common dirty g,rey ; the former is affeded chiefly by the men of 

 fuperior rank and means ; not a rag of cotton cloth was feen ; and the 

 drefs of the women in. no wife differed from that of the men, * except 

 that fometimes their heads were covered with a handkerchief blue or 

 checked, and they wore beads of glafsor pewter in as great profufion 

 as they could obtain them ; and bangles of the fame metal of great 

 £ze, round their arms and ancles- 



The perfonal appearance of thefe people is much the fame as that 

 of the Bifcheris about Bampur and Serdn. They have flout well 

 built figures are freque-ndy very fair, though much fun burnt; thek" 

 eyes of en blue, and their hair and beards curled, and of a light or 



* T'.fy. woie fometliing like a peuicoat inftcad oi ths ttowferji which ihe men dr^ffed i«». 



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