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order that the Chuff may be put in, the mouth being too fmall for this 

 purpofe. 5 could not help thinking, that the Wazir had overlooked 

 this circumftance in the fi'fflfc inftance, and now recollecting it, thought 

 he had made a bad bargain. Under this impreflion, and refolving fo 

 defeat his avarice in this matter, I pretended to mifunderftand his mef- 

 fage, and returned another knife with a fmall fiiver capped glafs fait 

 muffineer that had been admired in the morning by him. The agate 

 box was in the fhape of an urn flattened at the (ides, and furmounted at 

 each (boulder by the mafk of a Satyr. This appears to me an antique 

 of Grecian workmanfhip ; or, if it (hOuld be of Tatar fabric, the hollow- 

 ing does credit to their ingenuity. The Wazir feemed pleafed with 

 bis new bargain. 



Augnjl 24th. — Thermometer 39'. This morning we" went to the 

 lodging of a LatdkhUCaJhmirian merchant, who (hewed us Ruffian lea- 

 ther and French woollen cloth. The Latdkhi (aid, that the Ruffians had 

 latterly imported much merchandize into this part of Tatary through 

 Tarkund, which is forty diys journey from Latdkh and fifteen from 

 Bokhara, 



At night the Wazir and the red of his council fent for the old pan- 

 dit, and the brother of the Garpan faid, that they were anxious for our 

 departure, left fome accident might occur to us, which xvould be a 

 fotfrce of great uneahnefs to them. That we had now paffcd through 

 their country once; and as we were Firinghis, we could not be allowed 

 to ccme a fecond time. The pandit faid, that they well knew he was 

 confcious that they had it not in their power to prevent our v.fiting the 

 country whenever we pleafed. That whether we mould do fo or 

 not depended upon the orders of our fuperiors; but, if we (hould, our 

 dealings would always be governed by the fame integrity which they 



