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for each child under six do. Second class Eu- 

 ropean passengers are allowed to mess with the 

 warrant officers, or, if they '23refer it, to provide 

 their own food. 



Immediately after dinner most of the passen- 

 gers landed to look about tliem, whilst the 

 wooding of the steamer was going on. Our 

 rambles however were not very extended, for 

 there w^as little to tempt one in the apj^ear- 

 ance of the country; but we walked up to a 

 Waud, or temporary village, which with its oc- 

 cupants exhibited a deplorable degree of wretch- 

 edness, though the soil appeared a shade less 

 barren than about Kurrachee, and a few buffa- 

 loes and inferior camels were to be seen. Here 

 I shall briefly notice the small ports or Bun- 

 ders near the mouths of the Indus, 



Ghizree Bunder is situated at the base of 

 the Clifton Hill, south-east of the town of 

 Kurrachee, from which it is distant about four 

 miles. This port offers a safe anchorage for 

 boats, and facilities for landing and shipping 

 cargo. 



Wugoder is distant about sixteen miles from 

 Kurrachee, and is situated on Gharr Creek, one 

 of the tidal channels. Tliis Bunder is chiefly 



