CHAPTER IX. 



Naucliee — Love of Huntmg an Impediment to the Improvement of 

 the Country — Baneful Influence of the Mooktyar Kar — The 

 Jungles — Smdh Forests — The Euphrates Poplar and 'the Babul 

 — Value of the Forests — Government Demand for the Timber — 

 Difiiculty of Conveyance — Extensive Gardens — Roses of Khyr- 

 poor — Hose "Water — Luxuriance of Grasses and Reeds — The 

 Kana — Effect of Trees on the Climate — Moon's Influence on the 

 Sap of Trees — Temperature of Sindli — Fruits — Productions — In- 

 digo — Cotton — Tobacco — Preparation of Leather in Sindh — 

 Babul Bark — Opium — Sugar Cane — Saltpetre — Sulphur — Alum 

 ]\Iincs — Pearl Banks and Pearl Fishery — Salt Beds — Agriculture 

 — Mode of Paying Labourers — Richness of Crops — Peshawur 

 Rice — Oil Seeds — Flax, and Linseed — Paper Manufacture — Hemp 

 Dyes. 



The situation of Naucliee is exceedingly 

 pretty; fine shady gardens extend nearly all 

 the way to Roree, about four miles to the 

 north, and immediately opposite, in the centre 

 of the river, is a long island of considerable ex- 

 tent, which the Meer informed me was his best 

 shooting ground ; it also contains a large quan- 

 tity of very fine cultivated land, but jungle 

 predominates in the proportion of ten parts to 

 one, as the love of hunting supersedes all con- 



