44 6 A JOURNEY TO LAKE 



hard, one corner, of the large (beet is railed .from the- c.lo'th 3 ., and the 

 whole detached by the hand.,: .However this p'operi is- very inferior as 



to evennefs to that, made in Hindujlan. 



Jif/y-2ift. — At abqut ten o'clock we were vifited by three Tatar 

 'muficians from Latdk, one played on the hautboy, another on: drums*.. 

 and the third fang and danced. The airs were very fimilar to thofe 

 o£ the. Scotch.} and the tones of the hautboy refembled ftrikingly thofe 

 of the bagpipe. This inftrument had eight holes for the fingers, and one 

 for the thumb* with two reeds, and a metal tube, with abroad flange 

 concave upwards and convex, downwards,. inwhicEtbe reed was-infeifc* 

 ed. — The reeds were tied together with : »- piece of fl ring about' two 

 inches long, that the loo fe . one might be ready to be changed m- 

 flantly. The muficians began with aa Overt rue not- tinlike that of Oscar 

 andMALviNA as far as com pari [on may hold between the execution 

 from two inflruments, and that of a full band. They then fang the 

 words without rauftc, and fo went on with the inlirumenial^and 

 ^ocal performance alternately* 



, Ths- D'^2 and Wazir made their preferjr, .eonfifting of two- large 

 it-rays of rice, one coarle, the other fine; three lumps-- of. .butter, fewra 

 in ikins, and eight fheep. The -butter - was- -rancid;. 'a- . circumftance 

 which in this country does >not lower its value. The: exhibition -of: -the 

 articles of my fmalL medicine chell and \of Tome furgicai initruoient-s 

 appeared to give much fatis faction ; and both the Debit and Wazir were 

 pleafed with a few drops of oil of peppermint on fugar.. 



22d.-r- This morning" I received a mcffage from: the Diba to vifit -him 

 as foon as pofiible. He propofed a new rate of valuation for the coin, 

 in which our advance for wool had beearja4de.to him. This propofal 



