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Excerpt from Up the Country, Vol. 2 of 2: Letters Written to Her Sister From the Upper Provinces of IndiaThursday we began poking about to find shawls and agate curiosities, which are supposed to abound at Umritzir; but our native servants are afraid of goin g into the bazaars, they say the Sikhs laugh at them and their dress; my man told me they are a very proudly people, me not much like; they say, What this and What that? I say, It Mussulmaun dress - if you not like, don't touch I Then they say, N 0 city like our Umritzir l I say, I say nothing against your Umritzir; but then you never see any thing else. If you come to Calcut, I show you beautiful things - ships that go by smoke, and fine house's. However, they are so proudly that now I pretend I no understand their Punjabee, but I know what they mean.'
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Up The Country V2, Emily Eden
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- 2008
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