586 _ Lieutenant Burnes’ Memoir on the 
Khén ca ténda, which is seventy-seven cds, or,perhaps, two hundred miles from Ballyari. 
I have passed over this route. 
Crow says, “ The most eligible place for an equipment to land in Sinde during 
the north-east monsoon is Guwissary, a place about ten miles to the south-east 
of Curachee, at the mouth of a creek opening from the sea. Cuwrachee itself 
is a sea-port to the west of the Indus, and no vessels could batter it from the 
sea, for they are obliged to lie at a distance of at least three miles from it; but 
their guns could cover the landing of the troops abreast of the place of anchorage ; 
vessels of a large draft of water could anchor outside of Curachee-bar, and at a 
moderate distance from the creek. The landing at Gutssary is convenient enough 
at high tide for good-sized boats, and a couple of guns might keep the shore per- 
fectly clear. The road to Curachee is level, from thence to Tatta plain and good 
for the transport of guns and stores, and in favourable seasons is covered with verdure, 
From Tatta to Hydrabdd any expedition would be best conveyed by water, and 
could the country-boats be seized or secured they would be found best adapted for the 
purpose, being broad and flat-bottomed. From Tatta, however, an army might 
advance by land till it came opposite the island upon which Hydrabdad stands, at 
about five or six miles from the shore; but this is liable to two objections, first, the 
badness of the road for one-third of the way ; and, secondly, the difficulty of crossing the 
Indus, near Hydrdbdd, where the stream is three-quarters of a mile broad.” 
This intelligent gentleman, who resided for some time in Sinde, further says, that ‘ to 
him the country appears easily subdued bya maritime power. Vessels could act in the 
Indus, and command its navigation, and gun-boats drawing six feet of water could act 
in the lesser streams."’ He is wrong, however, I think, in stating that ‘a detachment 
could be conveyed in country boats to Ali bander, and that a force by the Indus 
might be brought to act with the detachment by land ;” for there is not a sufficiency 
of boats on the Cord or Lacpat branch to convey even a very small number of troops ; 
but this river, as I have before shewn, has lately undergone much alteration, and is only 
navigable as high up as Ali bander at certain seasons. It would also be necessary to 
transport every kind of stores along with the detachment, while all this could be accom- 
plished equally well, and one detachment second the other, by crossing the Pacham 
island, and marching from Bdllyari to the Indus. 
A pontoon train would come into play with great advantage on the Indus, but I ques- 
tion if the objects of the expedition could not be equally well accomplished with basket- 
boats and kejer? pots, used as they generally are in India. 
(J.) The ruins of this city lie near Saira, and are of great antiquity. It was built by 
the Chaord Rajapits, who appear to have had sway over both the extremities of Cutch, 
previous to the Muhammedan invasion, and to have been coeval with the ‘* Sath Sand” 
tribe of Rajapits, who ruled at Guntri. I have not been able hitherto to ascertain any 
thing satisfactory on its history. Its walls are still to be traced, and are about two 
thousand yards in circumference. It would be a singular fact, if these ruins turned 
