1 476 BULKH.
2 of jeOOOO, ^Mi <lie title xif Wadke; or Fdnee of fiulkh, fiomdM
3 Kii^ of- GbuboL He ia the head of the Uriiek tribeof Bfoocetan,
4 wlueh m*^!wV» the princ^ put of the inhebitaati'of Khbonoom*
5 The: fiilkiiwiiig account' <^ his perBon and mannen,' wm ooaunmii-
6 cBtad h^.the Reudent at Deli/e ' agents mentioiied in a note on a
7 former page.
8 Kiliibh Ally Beg is about sixty yean old ; be it a handsome man,
9 with a red and white complexion. He has a few grey hairs on bit
10 chin for a beard, small oves, broad forehead, and Uzbek attire. On
11 his head he wears a cap, and over it two turbans twisted up to^ctlier.
12 He wears an Uzbek shirt and a gown, over which is a girdle, wound
13 round his loins, with along knife stuck in it ; and over the whole he
14 generally has a robe of cotton or other cloth of some sober colour,
15 such as ash-colour, or the like. He does not always wear boots, or
16 nubus^s, as the other Uzbeks do, but only when lie rides ; he car-
17 ries a short stick in his hand, and takQsi a great deal of snuiF.
18 He takes his seat in his pubUc apartment every day about two
19 houia after aiiMa& He aitacnacarpet, widbout pillotra oTcoslikNU}
20 hia inthnatai, and thoee to whom he wiahes to do hoooar, ait on the
21 aanieeaipet with hien;' taut all other persons who come to him en
22 buainefle sit on the bare ground. Every nian> aa he enteNf wty Si^
23 lanm Ahdkoom, hefene he takes his aeat' He bqimca int6 «very
24 aflair oonbeeted with the administration of the government himself}
25 bat .those which involve law questions, he refers to the Cauzee. He -
26 does not put thieves to death, but bangs them up by the hand on' an
27 iron pin, fixed in a wall in the midst of the nMurket place. Highway
28 robbers and murderers he always puts to devlh. He walks on foot
29 through the bazars, and examines them every market-day. He hat
30 more thai\ once discovered light weights and overcharges, by means
31 of his own penetration, and he has now made regulations to pi^
32 vent tliose abuses in future.
33 Kilhch Ally is honest, just, well disposed, kind to his subjects, ju-
34 dicious and discriminating in his treatment of liis servants, economi-
35 cal in his expences, vigilant and well iulbrmed in the affiuis of his
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