LETTER XVII

AZIZ KHAN

37

He asks me for something every day, and for things he
can make no possible use of, simply out of acquisitive-
ness. . He has got from me among many other things a

new embroidered saddle-cloth, a double-bladed knife, an
Indian Jcamarland, many yards of silk, a large pair of
scissors, bracelets for his wife and daughter, and working
materials, and now he has set his heart on a large com-
bination knife, which is invaluable to me. " What use