Page:The People of India — a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan Vol 6.djvu/276

BRAHOOEE MENDICANT.

(336) HIS old Brahooee beggar has little about him characteristic of his tribe. Such ragged figures may be seen in all the bazars of Sind, begging from door to door, and living meanly enough, but still living, upon the doles of the charitable in small coins and meal. The subject of the Photograph does not appear to be a religious devotee, or fakeer, as he has not a dress or mark of any order: a poor man, only too old and decrepid, perhaps, to reach his native country over the rugged passes he would have to traverse. He is dressed in dingy white drawers, and a sheet or scarf covers the upper part of his body. His sandals hang to his left hand, and his staff leans on his shoulder; otherwise there is nothing remarkable in the figure but its picturesque ruggedness.