CHAPTER Y. 



Residence in Travellers' Bungalow — Meeting between Lord William 

 Beutiuck andMaharajahRimjit Singh — Indian Field of the Cloth of 

 Gold — The Maharajah's Troops — The Governor-General's Durbar 

 —Ameer Khan— Shahzada Sooltaun Jan — Sacred Places — Khoa- 

 jah Khizr — A Popular Legend — Island of Satee, or the Seven 

 Sisters — Sadlioo Beyla — Tombs — Minaret of Mahomud Masum — 

 Educational Establishments — Books in the Sindhian Character — 

 Public Garden — Judicial Administration of Sindh — Civil and 

 Criminal Courts — Fceticide — Fleet of Boats. 



Having received instructions from Meer Ali 

 Moorad to remain at Sukkur mitil His Highness 

 sliould arrive in the vicinity of Kh^nrpoor, we 

 made om^selves as comfortable as circumstances 

 would permit in the Travellers' Bungalow, but 

 as by regulation no person can continue to oc- 

 cupy rooms in these bungalows more than three 

 days, we could never depend on retaining ours 

 after that term had expired. Fortunately for 

 us, few persons were travelling at that time, so 

 we were for three weeks or so undistui'bed. In 

 tlie interim the Jhelum and Frere arrived. The 

 Jhclnm is a very slow vessel, and the Frerej 



