Identifier: ridetoindiaacros00dewirich (find matches)
Title: A ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: De Windt, Harry, 1856-1933
Subjects: India -- Description and travel Iran -- Description and travel Balochistan (Pakistan) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r collar, thickly studded with diamonds, rubies,and sapphires, hung round his neck. The stones,some of them of great size, were set indiscrimi-nately without any regard to pattern or design.Mir Khudadad wore no other jewels, with theexception of three small torquoise rings, all wornon the little finger of the left hand. He carriedno arms, but held in his right hand a large andvery dirty pocket-handkerchief of a bright yellowhue with large red spots, which somewhat de-tracted from his regal appearance. The Khan isa great snuff-taker, and during the audience con-tinually refreshed himself from the contents of asmall gold box carried by his son. Prince Azim,who was dressed in a green silk jacket and loosemagenta-coloured trousers, is a pleasant-manneredlad of about twenty. He is of much lighter com-plexion than his father and has a strong Jewishcast of feature. A huge cabochon emerald ofgreat value, suspended from the neck, was Azimssole ornament. A conversation now commenced, carried on
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KELA T— Q UETTA—BOMBA V. 307 through the medium of the Wazir and my inter-preter. The Khan has a fidgety, uneasy mannerthat must be intensely exasperating to his court.More than once during the audience, having askeda question with much apparent earnestness, hewould suddenly break in, in the middle of a reply,and hum a tune, or start off on a totally differentsubject from the one under discussion. At othertimes he would repeat a question twice orthrice, and, his eyes fixed on vacancy, utterlyignore the answers of the Wazir, who evidentlystood in great awe of his eccentric sovereign.Though the following colloquy may appear briefto the reader, it took nearly an hour to getthrough. Where do you come from, and what areyou ? was the Khans first question. From Russia, your Highness. From Russia! returned the Khan, quickly. But you are English, are you not ? Certainly I am. How strong is Russias army? continuedthe Khan, after an application to the gold snuff- 3o8 A RIDE TO INDIA. box, an

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