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to see a primitive description of lantern in Suwat, something on 
the plan of English ones, although, of courso, not copied from them. 
It consists of a wooden frame covered with buffalo bladder, or the 
skin of the pardah or membraneous covering of the stomach of 
animals, stretched over it whilst damp, with a place for oil in the 
centre. By the light of these one can see to read very well; and 
during my journey in Suwat I had often to read books by their 
light. 
There are no camels to be found in Suwat; but there are horses, 
mules, asses, bullocks, oxen, cows, and buffaloes. Oxen, mules, and asses 
are the beasts of burden. There are also dogs, cats, rats, and mice, 
as in most countries, pigeons, and fowls, which latter are bred in 
great numbers. There are no sheep of the dimbah or fat-tail species, 
only the common description of that animal; but there are goats of 
superior kind. The rivers also contain fish, which, however, do not 
appear to be used for food. 
The feathered game consists of water-fowl in great numbers, par¬ 
tridges, both grey and black, and quail. There is no waste land to 
shelter game in Lower Suwat, except in the hills on either side, 
where animals of the chase abound ; but in Upper Suwat, and in the 
Kohistan further north, the case is different. 
The only wild animals, in Lower Suwat, are jackals and foxes, 
which are not numerous. 
The chief reptiles and insects are snakes, scorpions, sand-flies, 
brorrahs, mangurrus , or bugs, musquitos, and fleas, from which 
Heaven defend us ! they are more numerous than the flies of Pesha¬ 
war. The brorrah is a species of worm or insect,—a sort of wood¬ 
louse—something in the shape of a bug but larger, generally infest¬ 
ing mosques and houses where there are old mats lying about. 
After biting a person, the bitten place becomes red and inflamed. 
The JcJiamandu7c of Kabul and Kalat-i-Baluch is a different insect. 
- I slept outside a village, in the plain, on one occasion; but it was 
all the same: the ground was grassy, and I could not sleep for the 
fleas. 
The principal articles imported into Suwat are, salt, which the 
Khattaks bring there, from the Stilt Range, for sale; and a few 
articles of British manufacture, consisting of cotton goods generally, 
such as calicos, twills, and muslins ; together with little coarse blue 
