146 SADHOO BEYLA. 



A little lower clown is another island, called 

 " Sddhoo Bei/la" or '' the Pure Spot," on which 

 the fuel for the steamers is stored. Here dwells 

 a Hindoo religieux of reputed great sanctity, 

 to whom the Hindoos resort in numbers, and 

 in whose prayers they place much faith. 



Immediately on the rocky hill which over- 

 hangs the collector's house, in former days tlie 

 residence of the Government Agent, are the 

 ruins of what is said to have been the tomb of a 

 foreign princess, and more distant are several 

 others. Most of these tombs are faced with 

 encaustic bricks or tiles, the colours of which 

 are still bright, though they must have stood the 

 weather of nearly three centuries, for most of 

 these tombs date from the age of Acbar, though 

 some are of far greater antiquity ; indeed, the 

 author of the work above referred to, sup- 

 poses that some of the tombs were erected 

 upwards of eight centuries ago. The encaustic 

 bricks, wherewith these tombs are faced, are 

 set in a vast variety of patterns, and the colours 

 are far superior to those now made even at 

 Hala, which are said to be the best in Sindli. 



A small domed building in the grounds of the 

 old Government Agency contains an inscription, 



