text:  "How shall I express my astonishment at this extraordinary ignorance? What! do they not know what _ghee_ is? Wonderful! This was a piece of news I never expected--that what abounds in every little wretched village in India could not be purchased in this great city!" How this unforeseen deficiency was supplied does not appear; but probably the khan's never-failing philosophy enabled him to bear even this unparalleled privation with equanimity as we hear no further complaints on the subject