GARRISON-TOWNS. 



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Sepoy, independent. They are not averse to active 

 service, as, when so employed, they have full permission 

 to " pill and polk" In camp they are commanded by a 

 jemadar, who, assisted by a " moollah," — some wretch 

 who has retained, as sole traces of his better days, a 

 smattering of reading, writing, and arithmetic, — robs 

 them and his government with the recklessness of im- 

 punity. Thus the jemadar, or C. 0., who also dispenses 

 promotion, is a man having authority. Similarly our 

 colonels in India, by superior position and allowances, 

 commanded the respect of their men before centralisa- 

 tion, falling upon the land like a pestilence, systematically 

 monopolised all power, and then rained blame upon those 

 who had lost it. These Baloch are a tame copy of the 

 Turkish Bashi Buzuk, or " mad-cap," far inferior as des- 

 peradoes to the Kurd and Arnaut. They live the 

 life of the Anglo-Indian soldier of the past generation, 

 drinking beer when they can " come by it," smoking, 

 chatting, and arguing ; the younger wrestle, shoot, and 

 exchange kit; and the silly babbling patriarchs, with 

 white beards and venerable brows, tell wondrous tales 

 of scenes long gone by, and describe to unbelieving ears 

 the ice and snow, the luscious fruits and the sweet waters 

 of the mountains and valleys of far Balochistan. 



The other items of t he population are the "Wamrima* — 



* It must bo borne in mind, that, in the Kisawahili and its cognates, 

 the vowel u prefixed to a root, which, however, is never used without some 

 prefix, denotes, through a primary idea of causality, a country or region, as 

 Uzaramo, the region of Zaramo. Many names, however, exceptionally omit 

 this letter, as the Mrima, K'hutu, Fuga, and Karagwah. The liquid m, or, 

 before a vowel and an aspirated h, mu, to prevent hiatus, being probably a 

 synaeresis of Mtu, a man, denotes the individual, as Mzaramo, a man or 

 woman of Zaramo. When prefixed to the names of trees, as has been in- 

 stanced, it is evidently an abbreviation of Mti, a tree. The plural form of 

 m and mu is Wa, a contraction of Watu, men, people; it is used to signify the 

 population, as Wamrima, the "coast-clans," Wazaramo, the people or tribe of 



