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2 «• ended. A dance took place, the Afghauns in a circle holding t nc h other,
3 ** singing loudly, and huzzaing, bending their bodies, and clapping their
4 Iwndfl. A grait fire wis niide op, I wu of ooniie nlled jovially. Meat,
5 •« bread, and map, wm Mrved in bo«l>. The neit nMraing pnoeeded^
6 M tfti'g*'»g m campi* end two days after met with an old Bdoodi fUceer i
7 ** we went to a camp, wbeie they, having searched iia» inade ns nng, and
8 « gave us bread attd bntter-tnilk."
9 Once some Atghauns Liiticcd tbe lleioche and Mr. Durie out of their
10 road on pretence of showing them a village : when they got them behind the
11 iulls, they sea»Aed them cuefiiUj, and did not let them go till they famoA
12 they had nothing of valoe. The Baloche liad some iiopers, which therf
13 returned. <* Another time." says Mr. Durie, " having breakfasted at a
14 ** fchaal» W9 happoied to be benighted, and lay down not far frotn a camp ;
15 being wearied and dark, we could not go to it. Some of the Afghauns
16 hiring our \ oices, came to us ; two of them supporting me there, and irtwe
17 ** us fire, bread, and c^iuiis to sleep on. The Fakeer wanting milk, they lailkcd
18 " a goat and gave him. The next day, arriving at a water mill, we got some
19 ** flour, and went and were doadyseudiedbj tome; Ihapi>enedtoftllhadr»
20 ** owing to tbe soreness of my ftet^ and got to another water mill, -where X
21 " stayed the night. . The next day crossed the river, went to another mill,
22 '« \v))pre a?! An„'b;iiin, who had been at Lahore and Dillie, and talked a little
23 ] JiiuIdh L', behaved kindly to me, carried nie to his kh;>i!, and got my
24 ** iiour baked, and gave me a }>air of trowsers. The next uiurnnig, set out }
25 *■ two or three days after, lodging at khaili, arrived at Kdaut^ on the top of a
26 <* high moontain, but ntfaied and depopnteted. As I bad sevend pieciea of my
27 *' old trowsers packed up round my waist, I was often searched : lodging at
28 '* the khails, arrived at Shahur Suf!a, which was destroyed and dep(^ulated«
29 ** A driv nr two alter, ha)ipened to be bctu'ghted, walked all night, owing to
30 " tiit; f^liarp cold winds, not being able to sleep : arrived at Gomana, a ruined
31 ** town, in the morning ; thence got to a stream and lay down } seeing an
32 ** Afghaun, went along with him to a set of kiUas^ met with gOod treatment
33 ** there, and got water-melons and kfaatucks; thence to Ondaharinthediiak
34 ** of the evening ; went to the Chaursoo (or market-place), and afterwards see-
35 " ing Afzul Malionnned, a baker, an Akhoond Zada, and two or tliree Fakeets^
36 " sitting nctir :\ sho[) on the road over a fire and smoking, I snilained : they
37 asked who 1 was, 1 said I was from llindostan proceeding on pilgrimage :
38 ** the Akhoond Zada detiired me to sit, giving me a culleeaun, saying Fakeers
39 M cf Ifindortan are generally respectables They pointed out a laBall brokeb
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