It had, the very morning of my visit to the palace, cut down and hacked to pieces a waiting-maid, not sixteen years old, in the Khan's harem.

I myself saw the corpse of the poor girl the same evening, as it was being carried outside the walls for interment.

[C] This, then, is the state of things existing at Kelat, not a hundred miles from the British outposts; this the enlightened sovereign who has been made "Companion of the Star of India," an order which, among his own people, he affects to look upon with the greatest contempt.
The few women I saw at Kelat were distinctly good looking, far more so than those further south.

Most of them have an Italian type of face, olive complexion, and large dark eyes, with sweeping lashes.

But very few wore the hideous nose-rings so common at Beila and Sonmiani.
Morality is at a discount in the capital, and prostitution common.
The Wazir sent me a bag of dates the morning of my departure, with a short note, written in English, begging that I would send him in return the best gold watch and rifle "that could be bought for gold" in London.