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VILLAGE OF KISHLOCK. 
else, probably, they would have carried off a very different load 
from that they anticipated. On our arrival, they had not only 
denied us every article demanded on the King’s order; but, on 
my directing the mehmandar to give up the point, and pay 
them for all we wanted, they refused even then to bring pro¬ 
visions, till I had given them the money in hand. Our pur¬ 
veyor’s indignation could hardly be suppressed; and he hinted 
to me, that had not the whole of our party been so exhausted 
on our entrance amongst them, and therefore little calculated to 
support his measures, the rascals should not have come off so 
easily. 
June 11th. To give our animals due rest, after so long a 
march, we did not start to-day till near four o’clock, P. M., 
taking a course south 45° east, over a very uneven road, owing 
to the plain swelling in that direction into small low hills of 
sand and reddish earth. Having ridden about six miles, we 
passed close to the village of Kishlock ; a much more civilised- 
looking place than the one we had just left. Though part of it 
was in ruins, yet the houses that were inhabited appeared less 
like hovels; and a little brook providing them plenty of water, 
the natives had surrounded their dwellings with neatly cultivated 
spots, bearing barley and other grain. The stream was a rich 
regale to ourselves. At no great distance from this place, we 
came up to an extensive burying-ground, with three very lofty 
tombs, domed a-top, rising from amidst the more common 
memorials of the dead. These prominent objects were in ruins ; 
but they seemed monuments of some residence of men having 
been in their neighbourhood, of more considerable dimensions 
than a village. Indeed, the immense accumulation of graves 
bore the same evidence ; though no other trace of a departed 
