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people was prepossessing. The attentions of the men 
to their women were very marked. A man might be 
seen in a field performing the office of hair-dresser to 
his lady-love ; or, spear in hand, he would join a party 
of women going to draw water, pitcher on head, and 
escort them lest any of our camp should fall upon, steal, 
or seduce them away. A very pretty girl and her beau 
were coaxed to sit for their likenesses, and went away 
with a smile ; but two hideous old women screeched 
at the pitch of their voices because they got but one 
necklace of beads as payment for sitting before the 
camera. This partly exhibits the boisterous nature 
of the people : they killed a European named M. 
Maizan, and I have no doubt that it was only the 
warning guns fired by our Belooch guard every night 
that prevented an attack, for which, however, we were 
not unprepared. 
The villagers en route turned out to see the white 
men ; amongst them, during a single march, we saw 
two albinos, one of whom had black woolly hair. 
Again, of an afternoon, we considered it an extraor- 
dinary occurrence if our camp was not thronged by 
people, curious and well-conducted, some bringing 
their produce to barter. Women would sit at our 
tent-doors suckling their infants while cracking jokes 
at our expense. We saw no places of burial, but by 
the roadside the skeleton of a traveller lay; and also 
at other places single tombs, with large dolls of wood 
or some broken bowls of delf, standing as immortelles 
at one end of the graves, which were those of Seedees 
from Zanzibar. The only superstitious observance we 
noticed was in a field at the foot of a tree ; a grass 
model of a hut was erected for the rain-god, as our 
