M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-21
DvENTUREs IN BELOOCHISTAN, con-
CLUDED.

garments "a shift and shirt scarcely
concealed finely rounded and almost
faultlts. limbs. As she was suffering
slightly from fever, gave her some
medicine, and also some syrup, she
directing me to pour it into the hol
low OF her hand, while, by applying
her mouth to her wrist, she was able
to drink without allowing any to es'
cape.
Unfortunately, when | was feeling
the pulse ofthis Sumric beauty, her
halt Beloech, extremely ugly, black
and savage husband, made his ap,.
pearance, bearing a broken-limbed
goat upon his shoulders, and looking
all suspicion and wrath. lie evidently
had no faith whatever in my moral
character, and looked upon my medi'
cal business as a mere diabolical pre-.
tense, which it was his duty and in.
terest to expose. Intrudins himself
upon our tete.a.tete, he spoke in Il
rude and provoking way, which l
could interpret easily without catching
tho separata meaning Of scarcely a
singlewor Especially he tried, and
with success, to excite a laugh against
me, by derisively inquiring it | could
turn a portion Of his body white. 1t
is dangerous in Beloochstan to let
the laugh be turned against one by an
angry man, though tits expedient not
to be hasty in noticing od.humored
ridicule. In this case it was lucky
that | understood his ridicule for,
while the servant with me was eX-
planning, there was time to consider
how it should be met. The eXpedient
j adopted was to pull out a knife,
catch him by the arm, and make .
slight incison, intimating that there
was nothing easier than to turn him
white, only, in the first place, he
would have to submit to being fayed.
This rude but not very brilliout jest
took amazingly, and prescry, d my
moral supremacy. His companions
seemed highly tickled and delighted
at the idea of their friend losing his
skin, and threw themselves on the
ground, rolling about, laughing, and
repeating, "lIakullo wants to be made
white IIakullo must be fayed -
Marsyas himself seemed paralyzod at
the audacity Of the proposal, and
turned away growing precisely as a
savage dog does from an untried foe
which it is doubtful about attacking,
This did not please his friends at all,
aud they were so earnest on the sub
iect that | began to ear--the more so,
as he seemed an unpopular character
among them-that they might tie him
mp, and insist on the operation being
performed. After this he established
himself behind q bush close by, and
consoled himself with examining and
handling his mathlock in a way which
showed how his thoughts were run
ming; for he aimed at me with it more
than once, when he thought was not
observing. The cord not being light
ed, there was no danger in this; but
when he rose, lighted a large pipe,
and took it over to his lair, thought
it cxpedient to speak to his affection
ate friends on the subject, whereon
they said ne was q bad man, and took
his gun away from him. There vas
no great chances of the laws Of hospi-
tality being broken; but the po8sibili-
ty Of the rufian wreaking his ven.
geanco on the unofending wife afford
ed an unpleasant subject Of contem-
plation. We'll was it that uakullo
had a dcmOniac.looking mothor-in-
law, who seemed quite able to protect
herself and her daughter too.
Even in Sind, where the crime is
punished with death, it is difficult to
persuade the Boloochos that they have
no right to slay their wives. One
whom saw executed for having done
so, persisted to the last--even after he
had a taste of the gallowS, for on the
first removal Of the drop, the rope
broke, and he fell to the ground-in
exclaiming against the monstrosity
and barbarity Of his gentonco, altho'
he had committed the murder without
provoeatioR, and when under the in
huence OF bhang, OF course, in their
own country they have perfect liberty
to slay, for rarely or never do the rel
atives of the wife make her death e
matter Of blood feud. The tongues Of
the women, as also of male slaves are
cut cut occasionally. At Bella, a
Belooch lady, evidently y once of Supe.
rior rank, and who lad been treated in
this way, haunted me like an uneasy
ghost, waylaying me, and stealing in
to my tent, where she would clasp my
feet, make a painful noise in her
throat, and piteouSly gesticulato some
incomprehensibl6 request. There was
a wild light as ofmadness in her eyes;
and the people Of the place denied all
knowledge of her, except that she
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