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Latache , Snolha :
C5-10-8-L, APO 883. Begger lying prone. One of the common sites in KARACHI.

It is difficult to classify the beggars in the cities of this country, and
exceedingly difficult to distinguish between the true fakirs ane the more

common humbugs of charity. The various beggars that 1 have met can readily

be grouped into the following classification, excluding of course those

religious fairs who fall under an entirely different set of conditions.
[por phate CET Waee page 155 J:

There are those individuals who range from five years to a age of late
maturity and old age and who are structurally crippled and diseased with
malformed bodies such as dwarfed legs and hands, scaby skins eee but who are
still intelligent enough to cope with the world. They generally make their
plea directly and forcibly expecting no sympathy. One fellow:had neither
feet or legs but was forced to propell -himself upon a whelled contrartion on
.the order of roller akties. Anether one apparently did not have the power
of leg movement and was negotiating the streets with knee pads and hand pads.
His movements were very slow and deliberate but persistent with noticable
end results.. A common type is the indivual who pushed himself over the groum
in a seated position as like a small child who has not yet mastered the art
of walking, with the usval alms cup rattling on ahead. This one particular
individual was received by four of his own race but ignored by the visiting
races.

Blind beggars sre common many of them structurally blind as evidenced
by the eye itself, however there were others who I am sure were feigning
their lack of power to see. A usual combinetion of such beggar is an escort
who does the soliciting. Invariably it is a young and beavtiful but cirty
and raggedly clothed girl. One cannot but help give pitty to such an in-
dividual but of course it is thru the sympathy of the charming little girl
in attendence. Frequently one will see a blind beggar wandering thru the
streets and the more dangerovS areas of traffic. The muscian beggar (blin

is common and generally fornd standine in one place anc offering his music