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The above process is called **Madder style" or “Madder work.” 
There is a finer style, called “Pen style” or “Pen work,” done 
by the pen instead of stamps, but I can obtain no specimens at 
present in the Bazaar. 
Price of a Counterpane (double), about 8s. to a Sakib, i. e. 
twice what they would charge to a native. 
Dyes, &e., used in the above and sent in this parcel. . 
No. IV. Madder. (Scinde.) 
No. V. Indigo. (do.) 
No. VI. Pomegranate Rind. (do.) 
No. VII. Scinde Gum; Khoor; gum collected (indifferently?) 
from Acacia Arabica, A. Farnesiana, and A. rupestris; and a 
fourth tree which I have not yet seen. Used in ink, and paper- 
making—in calico dyeing, &c., &c. 
No. VIII. Mayt; an earth found in Scinde, used for cleansing 
the hair (and in calico dyeing). 
No. IX. Muttee; a saponaceous earth found in Scinde. 
No. X. Scinde Soap; made of cocoa-nut oil and Sujjee khar. 
No. XI. Sujjee khar; an impure carbonate of soda made from 
a Salsola, of which I sent specimens in December. The plant is 
burned and the fire is slaked towards the end of the process. An 
inferior kind (no. XII.) from Salsola imbricata, (Fürsk.) is also 
sold in the Bazaars. Both are used by the natives to wash their 
clothes (an important ceremony, only occurring about once a year), 
and, by the more civilized men of towns, to make soap with the 
addition of oil. The country people and hill tribes, however, pre- 
fer letting the oil accumulate in their clothes by constant use and ie 
never changing. Then, by washing with Sujjee khar, a soap is - 
made in the clothes (as it were), and the oily secretions and dirt 
removed together. Salsolas are burned all over the world for this 
end. Vide Fôrskall, p. 70 in Sued. Memoir. ; Ainslie, Mat. Med. 
vol. L, pages 397 and note, and 398 and note; Winchester in 
Bombay Geogr. Trans., whence it seems they burn Salsolas about 
Bagdad. The salt plants in Scinde are called generically “Lanee” 
with some prefix. They are Salsolas, Suedas, Xygophylla, &e. 
No. XIII. Sakun; Tamarisk galls, got abundantly in Scinde, 
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