1 MK DUBIEfS KABRATIVB
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3 "with trees, ^v;l1^rs, lulls, and niouiiUius. I seldom went about in the houses;
4 but six or sevm times I saw some of the apartments of some of them, which
5 •••wme cariaady and commodiou^ mda. The people passed Aeir tune hep.
6 «• jSfy end clieerfidly, eddom mw Umbi qnaifd wHih eagr daBiw cf Mumosit/,
7 Mtboufj^llM^are quanebooieenoq^} MvenL timet saw Hindooeand Mi».
8 *' suhnans quarrel* also Mussulmans with Mus<5ulmans ; those happened to be
9 ** onlv with words, some blows or wrestling, and terminated without bloodshed,
10 ** or loss of auy member. Three or four times Afghaun robbers had their
11 «« bdlies ripped open, and were carried about the streets, hung on the necks of
12 *»ceineh,and>in«tt wkhednmtelliBgthe the/
13 ** were aftmrards hung fiw one dej in the Cbaunoo.
14 ** One niglitf long before the snow had fallen, obsemng the honaea and
15 ** shops were somewhat illuminated, I inqniretl of the cause, and was told
16 " Mahmood Shah liad taken l*i'5hour, and Slajjaool Mulk lied. On the d;iv of
17 ** the £ad, after the Ramzauu, Catnran Shahzaada, who generally sequestered
18 •* himMlf w-hia ivaDed Killa. went through the gate to the right a£ that called
19 « Gabulec^toaapacioaa-plahit hardbj the mountain^ withatetmiieef hon^
20 ** men, who galloped about firing their nuiakela ; great numbers of men and
21 " veiled women having gone to view the show. And at a place not far fnMn
22 *• his Killa, he ordered two or tliree feasts of pilaw to be given to the people,
23 *« to which 1 went, but seeing several beaten, went off'. Another day saw his
24 «{ gawai'ee (procession); be was at the head of tiiem, wd appeared to be a man
25 ** of good aiae and mdke* They had long ensigns and long speai% and paaied
26 ** throng the Chaonoe^ hcvmg oome Ctom an airing and vUt to aone pJacea
27 " sacred or nffffat^^g I three or four times beheld amairiage procession of
28 ** men, boys, womoiij and twirls, on liorse*^ and camels, passing about the streets;
29 «« the horsemen accompanynig, gaiioped about bnrkwnrds and forwards, firing
30 ** th^ guns. While 1 passed the nights at the baker's, or the broken house,
31 ** I heard now and than ene of the two Khanw^ lAo iufy and nightly camc^
32 ** play on dw Rubaab meiodienriy, and in company with the beker, abig with
33 ** great glee ; ako some Fakeers and othen^ came and aang or chanted day or
34 night, but not always. I also heard Hindoo men or women who lited there-
35 ** abouts, very frequently sing, with :i variety of music, at nights, and now and
36 " then Maiiommedan women or men who resided bard by. When the Hindoos
37 ** went to places of entertainment, they sang with music, or had enough of
38 «* both, with Huoaag, Thajr ham aavml Dhamm Serqja in the towni to
39 « wfaiditNj often naortndfiir puipeieiof admntioni bniinmiii of enlcrtwnb
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