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CHAPTER XXXVIII.
THE CHĀOTREE.
1835, April.
The Chāotree—Timūrian Dance—Churees—Finale of the Wedding—Jhanee
Khanum—The Zenāna Doll—Jealousy of the Natives—Meals
of the Slave Girls—Tara, the Pretty Slave—Conduct of English Ladies
considered extraordinary—Poppy-heads—Devotion of Native Women to
their Husbands—Illness of Colonel Gardner—Burial-ground of the
Family—My Departure—Death of Colonel Gardner, and of his Begam—Orders
of Knighthood—Remarks on the Muhammadān Religion, and
the Punishments of the Grave 447
