1 FOOD.
2 Thti pooiw DocnnHiiieel* pwtioularly among the ihqphadflb Wor
3 the wide shirt and iHmlle represented in Plate (11.)
4 •The poor only change their clothet on Fridays, and often only
5 eracy odier Friday ; but they bathe once a week at least, and their
6 pmya» nquire them to wash their &ceB» beai^s* handt, and moh
7 many times in the course of every day.
8 The little Khanns over the country wear the Persian drcs^, their
9 cuhbas or coats are made ot silk, sattin. ov a mixture of silk and cot-
10 ton called gurmsoot-, and sometimes ot brocade ; and they all wear
11 shawl girdles, and a shawl round their cap. Their doaks also are oi'
12 broad cloth, often red, or of silk of different colours.
13 The iuoti ot the rich ia nearly tlie saiue as that ol tiie same class in
14 Persia, £at, highly spiced pilaws, various kinds of ragouts, and jointi
15 of meat stewed in rich uuioea. Moat Europeans, I think, would rdiak
16 Hut ooekeiy> bol I'lunre heard ihe miartnce of awMt things with all
17 ■ovto of iaAm in Penia complained of, and I mppoae <fie aaneob-
18 jection ^^dies liere. Thaia drink i» dietBet» uMA iaviiMla'oF ymkm
19 friiita« anfl Bosne Idndii of k are very pleaauit
20 u the commonest colour. It is tied across the brenst, hut the strings arc concealed, and
21 • row of covered oik buttons runs down one tide of the troat with a row of nilk. ]ooi^ oo
22 die odier, thoa^ «t amch too great a diatance to bnttaii* The ateerea are doaed wtdi
23 a long row of buttoiiK and \oopa which run up the hwide of the arm. They wmr <riia
24 coloured trowaan «f ailk or cotton, short stocking* in winter, and Persian sho««, which
25 are round and broad Ht t}>e toes and narrow towards the heels : they are shod with iron
26 Kke Oerman hoMs, and the inner part on which the lieel rests has a piece of wood to fit
27 it. covired with a ihm p\ate of ivnry, in which aonie BfpMtm art inkad in bladb Tb»
28 sho«a> are mada of bruwn leather well taaoe4>
29 Thetwaddrewiaa oili, abcMt rix indie* liiglw made ofqiiOted dik or duota: dicKe
30 are two v,-i\ys of maUi^ dib ce|>^ «tie ot jAkh u wpreMPted in Hate D. and Ae
31 other in Plate VIIL
32 AlooiVBeoraeoMneafcawliaalwajrs wonirainiddiewaiitasagirdle, and the old men
33 CAan twbt another loongee round their caps ,like a turban.
34 Manv p«H>jilo of t})c lower order wear the nlklmulik or un<!fT tunic only, without the
35 cubha, and ail wear u cloak over tlie rest ut tbcir dress : in suQUiicr it ia made of some '
36 1^ clotl^ Md in irinter of die<p>flkiB or fdL