CONTENTS. 



Moharee, or Huiitiug-ground — A Battue — The Meer's 

 Family — Official Misstatements — Meer Shah NowazKhan 

 — Meer Jehan Mahomed — The Fat Boy of the Family — 

 — Matrimonial Arrangements — Ladies of the Meer's 

 Family — Domestic Habits of the Zunana — The Toilette 

 — Conversation of the Ladies — The Meer's Neglect of his 

 Wives — Talpoor Dynasty — The Jungle — Hog-hunting — 

 — The Camp — Chief Commissioner's State Visit — Na- 

 pier's Interview with Meer Ali Moorad — Noble Charac- 

 ter of that General . . . ... . 234 



CHAPTER IX. 



Nauchee — Love of Hunting an Impediment to the Im- 

 provement of the Country — Baneful Influence of the 

 Mooktyar Kar — The Jungles — Sindh Forests — The Eu- 

 phrates Poplar and the Babul — Value of the Forests — 

 Government Demand for the Timber — Difficulty of Con- 

 veyance — Extensive Gardens — Poses of Khyrpoor — Pose 

 "Water — Luxuriance of Grasses and Peeds — The Kana — 

 Effect of Trees on the Climate — Moon's Influence on the 

 Sap of Trees — Temperature of Sindh — Fruits — Pro- 

 ductions — 'Indigo — Cotton — Tobacco — Preparation of 

 Leather in Sindh — Babul Bark — Opium — Sugar Cane — 

 Saltpetre — Sulphur — Alum Mines — Pearl Banks and 

 Pearl Fishery — Salt Beds — Agriculture — Mode of Pay- 

 ing Labourers — Pichness of Croj^s — Peshawur Pice — 

 Oil Seeds — Flax and Linseed — Paper Manufacture — 

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