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2 natt also tiie «lu«fr of tlie^tribet 'tiAnltVmitum»9 woma respectMi
3 Booraunee and Fenian mctcliMito, the loir«r clan ot
4 die agents of llie great kndi ( moat of thcan wne i^pweable and'oon*'
5 venible peiople» fiom whom much local ' infimnatimi was to be gained.
6 Hie genefal etiriosit)r to see us, the distincdon of bdi^ nooved bj
7 VB» and the hope of profiting by our liba^dily, indeed* brought many
8 more visiton than we could admit* and our gates were always sup*
9 founded by numbers of the lower orden, whom it required the vigeur
10 of two of the King's Caupoochees, or porters, to keep fiom farcing aan
11 entrance. Among the visits I paid, I must not omit one to a cele-
12 brated saint, iKuned Shaikh £wuz, who was often visited by the King
13 and prime minister, neither of whom ever would be seated in his
14 prcscnco, till repeatedly commanded. I paid my visit to him In liis
15 little garden, where I perceived a number of well dressed people ap-
16 proachinor at a distance, and was (joiniif to salute them, when some-
17 body close to m*' hade rae wekdiiiis on which I looked, and saw an
18 old man dressed like a labourer, who seemed to have been digging in
19 the garden : this was the saint, and the others were men of high
20 rank, who stoo l at a distance from respect : among them was a young
21 man, who wa.s brother to the Queen, and ison to Wuffadar Khuun,
22 formerly Vizier. The Shaikh made us sit down upon the clods
23 which had just been turned up, and began to convene very agreeably;
24 OB sH subjects, eieept religion ; he said he heavd the people about
25 Feshawer, had been mean cgnough to importune me. iSw presientSt and
26 said that the^ighMin chieft had . become such a set of sooundns3s»
27 that be was adiamed of them. He^ however* pmiaed the King* . He
28 talked readily and fluently, gave himself no airs, of aholy man> and
29 ahowedno sftctation, eioept in lamenting that he had nodiing ur the.
30 house to offer us, and pioposmg to send to a oook diqp iat a dSoner
31 to entertain us with. There was another celebrated deifise^ who
32 declined my vnit, saying that he had renounced the world, sod wis
33 entirely engaged in prayer and meditation. I sent him a huge |tfe»
34 sent in moncjt b^ggmg him to give it in chari^* Vid to pmy ^ the