10^ BENARES. 
etiquette : on paying my repects my titles were not announced by 
a servant, from an Asiatic courtesy, which supposed me of so high 
a rank, that I must be known to the princes. In all other cases this is 
done: it was so to Mr. Neave. Mirza Khorum is in person rather 
short and fat ; his features strongly expressive of good nature, 
though his black beard, rendered straggling by the effects of the 
small pox, gives a fierceness to his countenance, which nature by 
no means intended. His eldest son is a fine boy, but with a melan- 
choly cast of features ; the second, a laughing English-looking lad. 
He informed me that he had, in all, seven. I was again saluted on 
my departure. I never experienced more pain than during this 
visit : every thing strongly marked poverty ; the purdahs were of 
red and green cloth, but in tatters ; he himself was in a dress of 
gold brocade, but without jewels ; and his children were clad still 
more simply. I had, however, one consolation, in the idea that 
this declension of the house of Timour was not owing to the 
British. 
Our next visit was to the eldest son, Mirza Shegofta Bukht, who 
resides at Talynullah, in a house built by himself, on the very 
spot where the old fort stood. It is surrounded by a garden, and 
commands a pleasing view of the adjacent country, and a nullah, 
whose banks are now covered with grain, though in the rainy 
season they are several feet deep in water. I found him seated in 
his verandah, the floor of which was covered with white cloth ; 
chairs were placed for Mr. Neave and me. Our reception was si- 
milar in every respect to that at Shewalla, excepting that the nazur 
given by me were eleven mohurs, by Mr. Neave seven. This prince 
has the appearance of a much younger man than his brother, is 
