CHAPTER IV. 



Hyderabad — Kotree — The Siudh Railway— Dangerous Navigation 

 of the Lower Indus — Roses of Kotree — The Commerce of Sindh 

 — Native Craft — Unwieldy Boats — State Barge of the Ameers — 

 Wolves and Jackalls — Nara — Sehwan — An Ancient Fortification 

 — Lukkee Hills — Curious 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 — Larkhana Bunder — • 

 Sukkur — Traveller's Bungalow — A Visit of Ceremony — Tombs — 

 River Scenery — Roree — Bukkur — Ghats, or Lauding Places— 

 Sindh Police Corps — Magisterial and Police Departments — Sir 

 Bartle Frere's Minute on the Sindh Police. 



Seventy miles above Tatta is Kotree, on the 

 right bank of the Indus, and immediately oppo- 

 site is Hyderabad, which was the capital of 

 Central Sindh during tlie government of the 

 Ameers. 



Hyderabad, wliicli was founded by Gholaum 

 Shah Kalora, stands on the extremity of a range 

 of Limestone hills on the eastern bank of the 

 Indus. The fort and citadel, which last is of 

 great height, tower above the city and have a 

 picturesque appearance from the river. Tlie 



