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2 . LIFE OF THE ORSAT.
3 and wj master were sitting bj yourselves in such a garden, and he
4 told jou that he had counted thirty-four different kinds of flowers
5 within a few yard<; in the hills of Caubul* that is to be a aigu to you
6 4hat what I say is from liim."
7 The servants are ied in the hon^^c, and clothed at their master's
8 expense, besides wliich thcv get tlieir wages once a quarter. They
9 are oiteii soldiers, in the Dusteh» or regiment» which their master
10 comiiiaiiLls.
11 The iile of the great naturally differs from that which I have attri-
12 buted to the common people. They do not get up till sun-rise, when
13 they pray and read the Koraiui, and religious books, for an hour or
14 thereabouts. They then have a breakfast of bread, butter, honey,
15 eggs, and cheese : after this they repair to court, where the o£Bofln
16 of tlie hoaMbaid ]iave MaemUed iit » madb. eadier hour. Tb^
17 UMtn «t the pdaice tOl CSkemki, wad during that period they sit in the
18 apHttaients allotted to their leaqpeotive ovdeiSt tmmot bqinneas, le-
19 iseiTe'petitioneEBy aiid do a great pert of their official duty: thoae who
20 tee 'most emi^byed, have their luncfaeoii broi^t to them at the
21 palace^ and xemain thore till the cort breaks up for the day; but the
22 ijeneiaUtjr gohome to this meal* and in summer take their usual nap
23 efter it. Whan they awake^ they perform their devotions^ and" read a
24 little, then receive visitors, and dispatch such business as .could not
25 be done at the pahKse^ tiU De^gur, nhen they again repair to court
26 ■At dark they return home, and amuse themselves till a late hour,
27 when they dine, and afterwards many drink win^ when they have
28 private parties. At their great entertainments, of course, nothing of
29 this kind is thought of, but unless on such occasions, they have <mly
30 intimate friends at dinner, Chausht being the meal to which they
31 usually ask strangers. It is not to be supposed that all the great
32 drink winej on the contrary, the hulk of the Dooraiinee Sirdars ab-
33 stain from it, and all try to reconcile tlie prnctice with decency ; but
34 as their debauches are always carried on in company, this seldom can
35 be done. It may be supposed that all ^Toat men have not their time
36 fto hilly occupied as those I h^ve described ; they do not, however,
37 Digrtized by Googl(