Their dress, a loose divided skirt of thin red stuff, and short jacket, with tight-fitting sleeves, open at the breast, showed off their slight graceful figures and small, well-shaped hands and feet to perfection.

Chengiz, pointing to the group, smiled and addressed me in a facetious tone.

"He wants to know if you think them pretty," said my interpreter; but I thought it best to maintain a dignified silence.

The chief of Sonmiani was, for a Mohammedan, singularly lax.
A kind of rough pottery is made at Sonmiani, and this is the only industry.

Some of the water-jars were neatly and gracefully fashioned, of a delicate grey-green colour; others red, with rude yellow devices painted on them.