CHAPTER III. 



Appearance of Siudh — Dangers of its Coast — Its Ports — Kurracliee 

 Harbour — Munora Light-House — Europe Hotel — Boundaries of 

 Sindh — Kurrachee, the Commercial Gate of Central Asia — Can- 

 tonments — 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 

 tlie Conveyance of Troops — Frere Steamer — Ports on the Indus 

 — The Water of that River — Tatta — Ruins of Kullian Kot — 

 Shifting character of the Indus — Appearance of the Country — 

 Jcrruk. 



The appearance of the coast of Sindh from 

 the sea is by no means attractive ; its predomi- 

 nant features are arid sand, bounded in the dis- 

 tance by the Hala mountains, a barren range 

 which separates Sindli from the territory of 

 Kelat. This coast is particularly dangerous 

 during the south-west monsoon, which com- 

 mences in June and terminates in August, and 

 the like remark is applicable to the entire coast of 

 Kattiwar and the Gulf of Cutch, as these shores 

 are then lashed by the whole force of the Indian 

 Ocean in its wildest fury. Cape Monze, at the 



