168 DECLINE OF SHIKAKPOOR. 



tlieless, Mr Macleod, a very able Revenue officer, 

 states in his report, tliat Shikarpoor has been ou 

 the decline ever since that of the Cabul mon- 

 archy. Further, that since the death of Jeyth 

 Mull the Kardar of Shikarpoor, who was all- 

 powerful, the mercantile connection of the place 

 has not extended beyond Cabul and Kandahar 

 to the westward, and Jeypore, Jessulmeer, and 

 Bickaneer to the east. Its principal trade is 

 now in the direction of Kurrachee and Palee, 

 and through those places with Bombay. Mr 

 Macleod's opinion is certainly at variance with 

 popular report in respect to the decline of 

 Shikarpoor; but as such opinion is based on 

 official data, it would be folly to gainsay it. 

 In that gentleman's opinion Kurrachee is now 

 the most prosperous commercial town in Sindli, 

 but even the transactions of her merchants, as 

 compared with those of the Bombay capitalists, 

 are, from want of means and want of enterprise, 

 on a limited scale. Indeed, he declares his be- 

 lief that there is not a wealthy man in trade in 

 all Sindh. 



Twenty-five miles beyond Shikarpoor, on the 

 frontier of the Desert, towards the Bolan Pass, 

 is Jacobabad, formerly known as Khanghur, 



