THE BALOCH. 



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beads, in my name, which he converted to his own 

 purposes. 



Of Darwaysh little need be said. He is a youth 

 about twenty-two years old, vvith a bulging brow, a 

 pair of ferret-eyes, a " peaky " nose, a thin chin ; in 

 fact, with a face the quintessence of curiosity. He 

 is the " brother " — that is to say, the spy — of the 

 Jemadar, and his principal peculiarity is a repug- 

 nance to obeying an order because it is an order. With 

 this individual I had at first many a passage of words. 

 Presently prostrated in body and mind by severe dis- 

 ease, he obtained relief from European drugs ; and from 

 that time until the end of the journey, he conducted 

 himself with a certain stiffness and decorum which con- 

 trasted pleasantly enough with the exceeding "bounce" 

 of his earlier career. 



The Seedy Jelai calls himself a Baloch, though pal- 

 pably the veriest descendant of Ham. He resents with 

 asperity the name of "Nigger," or "Nig" — Jupiter 

 Tonans has heard of the offensive dissyllable, which was 

 a household word before the days of the Indian mutiny, 

 but has he heard of the more offensive monosyllable 

 which was forced upon the abbreviating Anglo-Saxon 

 by the fatal necessity of requiring to repeat the word 

 so frequently ? Jelai clothes his long lank legs — 

 cucumber- shinned and bony-kneed — in calico tights, 

 which display the full deformity of those members; and 

 taking a pride in the length of his mustachios, which 

 distinguishes him from his African-born brethren, he 

 twists them en croc like a hidalgo in the days of Gil 

 Bias. The Seedy, judging from analogy, ought to be 

 brave, but he is not. On the occasion of alarm in the 

 mountains of Usagara, he privily proposed to his com- 

 rades to "bolt'' and leave us. Moreover, on the "Sea 



