CHAPTER YI. 



Shikarpoor — Its great Commercial Importance— Tbe Sudr Bazaar 

 — A Motley Multitude— Hindoo Merchants— Native Bills of Ex- 

 change—Decline of Shikarpoor — Jacobabad — The Jakranee and 

 Dooinkee Colonies — Importance of Jacobabad — Hill Campaign 

 under Sir Charles Napier — The Hill Tribes — Sindh Horse — War 

 Services of this Corps— Mirza Ali Acbar Khan Bahader — De- 

 parture from the North-western Frontier — Roree — House of a 

 Native Gentleman — The Jooma Musgid — Allore or Brahmanabad — 

 Ancient Course of the Indus— Seyuds of Roree — Sacred Hair of 

 the Prophet. 



A CANTER of two-and-twenty miles in a north- 

 westerly direction from Sukkur brings one to 

 Shikarpoor, the Zillah station of the collectorate, 

 and the military head-quarters in Upper Sindh. 

 The garrison is, however, much reduced in 

 strength, now only consisting of a regiment of 

 native infantry, one company of artillery, and 

 two companies of European foot, with some of 

 the police corps. The station is tolerably well 

 laid out, and the houses are better, and their 

 general appearance is superior to that of 

 Sukkur ; the climate is much tlie same, but 



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