170 THE JAICKANEE AND DOOMKEE COLONIES. 



have tlie revenues of the frontier district in- 

 creased, that it may be confidently expected 

 they will yield a land revenue of two lakhs of 

 rupees, which might be increased to eight were 

 the project of the Great Desert Canal to be 

 carried into effect. 



According to the latest published report from 

 the Chief Commissioner in Sindh, the remnant 

 of the Bhoogtee tribe have behaved well, and 

 adhered honourably to their engagements, hav- 

 ing repeatedly given up clansmen charged with 

 cattle-stealing. The Jakranee and Doomkee 

 Colonies about Jacobabad are also going on 

 favourably, each year seeming to confirm them 

 in their newly-acquired habits of industry; in- 

 deed they declare that they would not now wish 

 to quit Sindh. These people, under direction of 

 their own chiefs, have most efficiently constructed 

 a large dam, for irrigatory purposes, across an 

 old channel of the Indus, near Kusmore. The 

 Commissioner further reports that perfect secur- 

 ity for life and property now exists upon the 

 border and for some distance beyond. These 

 Belooch tribes, who formerly plundered all 

 Cutchee and Sindh up to the gates of Shikar- 

 poor and Larkhana, and who up to 1847 had 



