564 Lieutenant Bornes’ Memoir on the 
was found too deep, impelled on by bamboos and poles. At brahim Shah 
Pir, thirteen miles below Sindri, when the bank of the river emerged 
from the water, the boatmen tracked the ‘ duéndi” along by a rope, but the 
operation is both tedious and laborious, and I did not reach Lacpat for 
fifty-four hours after I had quitted Allah-band. 
The traffic between Sinde and Cutch by the P’harrdn has existed for 
so short a time, that it is difficult to say how it will turn out; but as the 
taxes of the Cutch government are collected at Lacpat, and are farmed 
out for two lacs and thirty thousand cowries (Rs. 6,000) annually, there is, 
I believe, some objection to shipping merchandize by any other channel 
than Cotrt. I met, however, as I have said, five boats in one morning 
passing up the “ Mitra-ndr” to Pdilia, and fell in with others passing 
down the river. The sailors on board one of them told me that they had 
come from a place on the Guni, twenty-four miles beyond /Vanga, passing 
through numerous bands, all of which they assured me were burst. There 
are not, however, above ten or twelve of these boats in the whole of this 
branch,—a very unequal supply for a military expedition. 
The Cori produces abundance of fish, and some of them of a very choice 
kind. Fresh-water fish were found in great numbers after the late inunda- 
tion. Porpoises are seen even above Lacpat. The birds which frequent 
it are exceedingly numerous: flamingoes, cranes, pelicans, ducks, gulls, &c., 
with a long list of aquatic birds, which I never before met with, and whose 
names I have never heard. The pelican is a favourite food with the 
Lohdnas, a tribe of Hindis, who are a very industrious race, and make up 
the greatest portion of the population of Sinde. 
Except Lacpat, which is quite a modern town, there is no inhabited place 
on the banks of the P’harrdn below Ali band, and the Sindians have a 
detachment at the first village, called Raoma ca bazar, five miles eastward 
of it. Lacpat is a place of considerable opulence, with a population of about 
six thousand souls; it is two and a-half miles in circumference, and sur- 
rounded by a strong wall with bastions at intervals. Its position is its 
greatest advantage, and the ruins of a very ancient city, called Whagam 
Chaora-ca-gad, proves that the former rulers of the country were not ignorant 
of this.* The inhabitants of Zacpat are principally merchants, for the 
* See note J. 
