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unable to find it, leads to the supposition that 

 the mosque was erected in the year 341 A. H., or 

 927 years ago. This island is held sacred 

 equally by Hindoos and Mahomedans; the 

 former call it '^ Lauli-oode?j-Roo-Jindo-Pee7'" or 

 '' the living saint." The island of Klioajah 

 Khizr is said to be so sacred to everything 

 Sindhian that the fish of the river, particularly 

 the Pullah, evince their respect for the island by 

 never turning their tails when retiring from its 

 shores. The author of " Dry Leaves from Young 

 Egypt " gives the following account of the 

 legends regarding this island : — 



'' The popular legend tells us, that a shepherd 

 named Baji, whose hut stood where the ^Ma- 

 hall of Baji,'' one of the divisions of the town of 

 Eohri, now stands, observed at night a bright 

 flame burning at some distance from him : 

 thinking it had been kindled by travellers, he 

 sent his wife to procure a light from it, but as 

 often as she approached, it vanished. She re- 

 turned and told her husband ; and he, disbeliev- 

 ing her report, went himself, and then discovered 

 that it was indeed a miraculous manifestation. 

 Awe-struck with what he had seen, he erected 

 a Takiyah, or hermit's hut, on the spot, and 



