LETTER I

Introductory Remarks.--The characteristic simplicity of manners

exhibited in Native families.--Their munificent charity.--The Syaads.

Their descent, and the veneration paid to them.--Their pride of

birth.--Fast of Mahurrum.--Its origin.--The Sheahs and

Soonies.--Memorandum of distances.--Mount Judee (Judea), the

attributed burying-place of Adam and Noah.--Mausoleum of Ali.--Tomb

of Eve.--Meer Hadjee Shah.

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