Our Kailouee escort left us at noon, to go to
Aghooou and Janazaret, or Zanairas, their homes. I must write the
characters of En-Noor, Deedee, and Ferajee hereafter. They are pretty
well fixed in my memory. These individuals are amongst the number of
persons who "turned out," to use the vulgar expression, better than we
anticipated from their first transactions with us.
On encamping, Mohammed, the son-in-law of En-Noor, came to my tent, and
told Yusuf that we must now pay for our escort, as we were within a few
hours of Tintalous, and did not require it more; also that the people
wished to go to their homes, for they had been collected from various
parts of the country. I must observe, that, considering the time that
elapsed between the departure of the courier from Seloufeeat and the
arrival of the escort at Tintaghoda, these people had been collected
very quickly, which showed En-Noor to be a man of business and
authority.
I expected we should have some trouble to satisfy thirty-one people.
Yusuf, aided by the Tanelkums, sorted out about eighty-seven reals'
worth of goods. This was offered as sufficient, but did not content even
the chief persons, much less the smaller gentlemen. We then added
another burnouse, and other things, making up about one hundred reals.
This the chiefs accepted; but not so the little men. They stormed and
swore; and some of them even ran to seize our bales of goods.
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