CONTENTS. 



Gate of Central Asia— Cantonments— Increase of Sea 

 Trade— Want of Water— Muggur Talao, or Alligator 

 Tank— Fight between an Alligator and a Tiger— Meer 

 Shah Nowaz — Navigation of the Indus — Flats for the 

 Conveyance of Troops — Frere Steamer — Ports on the 

 Indus— The Water of that Eiver— Tatta— Euins of Kul- 

 lian Kot — Shifting Character of the Indus — Appearance 

 of the Country — Jerruk 60 



CHAPTER IV. 



Hyderabad — Kotree — The Sindh Eailway — Dangerous Navi- 

 gation of the Lower Indus — Eoses of Kotree — The Com- 

 merce of Sindh — Native Craft — Unwieldy Boats — State 

 Barge of the Ameers — Wolves and JackaUs — Nara— 

 Sehwan — An Ancient Fortification — Lukkee Hills — Cu- 

 rious Petrifactions — Sehwan District, finest in Sindh — 

 Description of the Hill Tracts— The Alluvial Plain of 

 Sindh — The Great Desert — Northern Sindh — Climate of 

 Sindh — Diseases — Hot Winds — Lake Manchur — Lark- 

 hana Bunder — Sukkur — Travellers' Bungalow — A Visit 

 of Ceremony — Tombs — Eiver Scenery — Eoree — Bukkur 

 — Ghats, or Landing Places — Sindh Police Corps — Ma- 

 gisterial and Police Departments — Sir Bartle Frere's 

 Minute on the Sindh Police .... 91 



CHAPTER V. 



Eesldence in Travellers' Bungalow — Meeting between Lord 

 William Bentinck and Maharajah Eunjit Singh — Indian 

 Field of the Cloth of Gold— The Maharajah's Troops— 

 The Governor- General's Durbar — Ameer Khan — Shah- 

 zada Sooltaun Jan — Sacred Places — Khoajah Khizr — ^A 

 Popular Legend — Island of Satee, or the Seven Sisters — 

 Sadhoo Beyla — Tombs — Minaret of Mahomud Masum — 

 Educational Establishments — Books in the Sindhian 

 Cliaracter — -Public Garden — Judicial Administration of 



