'Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.' [‎83] (125/476)

KELAT.
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usual, a concourse of visitors, some of whom were very pressing to
obtain medicine from us; but for the present we evaded their im
portunities, on the plea of our baggage not being arrived; an excuse
we had cause to regret having made, from the trouble it afterwards
occasioned us. On the 16th we had a visit from a most civil and re
spectable man, a Darogha or overseer of Muhmood Khan, who had
arrived two days before from Kutch Gundava, for the purpose of
procuring and carrying down to that place some articles that were
needed by the Khan, who was preparing to celebrate his marriage
with one of the daughters of Meer Moorad Allee of Bunker: he
told us, that having accidentally learned that two agents of Soondur-
jee (with whose brother he had been long intimately acquainted), were
come up from Bombay, he thought it right to pay his respects and
tender his services to us: we expressed our due sense of this civility,
and added, that we should trouble him to be the bearer of an Uree-
zuh * to his master from us, in which it was our intention to solicit
his sanction to our sojourning at Kelat or elsewhere in his dominions,
for some time. The Darogha replied, that it would give him much
pleasure to take charge of it, and that he would also avail himself of
the first favourable moment to state our views to the Khan, who he
was confident would not hesitate in acceding to our request. On
the 18th he again waited on us to get our letter, and Captain Christie
then informed him, that we had been entrusted by Soondurjee with
a small present for the Khan, and proposed sending it down to the
Kutch (iundava, when our baggage joined us; but this he advised
us against, and said the most proper time to offer it would be on the
Khan's return to Kelat.
Our stay at this city had already been protracted much longer than
we had calculated upon, but the unforeseen delay in the arrival of
the servant, whom we had left with our things at Kohunwat, and for
whose safety we began to have serious apprehensions, prevented our
* Ureezuh, a petition, here means a letter from an inferior to a superior.
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