142 KHANUI AND ORDAM-PADSHAH [CHAP. Ix.
Towards three, we emerged on less fertile ground, and I was expecting to get near the edge of the cultivated area when there rose before me a grove of magnificent old poplars. It was the arbour enclosipg the shrine of Bu (Bibi) Mairyam
BEGS AND AKSAKAL OF BESHKARIDI.
Khanum, the saintly wife of Satok Boghra Khan, the popular hero of Muhammadan local tradition. Entering the courtyard through a small gate in the high mud wall enclosure, I found a delightfully shady quadrangle of old poplars, and in its centre under a grand elm tree a fresh collation. I was
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