68 THE PUBLIC GARDEN. 



honesty of the jailors, and it was supposed that 

 the stoppage of their tobacco was also preju- 

 dicial to their health. The lower class of Ma- 

 homedans in Sindh are from infancy accustomed 

 to smoking, and however poor an individual 

 may be, he always has recourse to his pipe 

 after meals ; thus it is a necessary rather than a 

 luxury to prisoners. Great reforms have since 

 taken place in prison discipline, and the prison- 

 ers now receive one anna per diem subsistence 

 money, which is quite sufficient for the purpose. 

 Kurrachee has a public garden, which produces 

 good vegetables and flowers, but fruit is rarely 

 procurable, and even plantains are brought 

 from Bombay. On Sir Charles Napier's arrival 

 at KmTachee, which had then been four years 

 in our possession, he found the 22nd foot suffer- 

 ing dreadfully from scurvy, in consequence of 

 no vegetables being procurable. He immedi- 

 ately formed the Government garden, for the 

 support of which the Government allowed sixty 

 rupees per mensem, and in a very few months 

 the produce of the garden realized 800 rupees a 

 month, the soldiery being supplied gratis with 

 all the vegetables they could consume. The 

 Kurrachee Library and Museum and the Native 



