RICHNESS OF CROPS. 301 



nautch they have no amusements, and reading 

 and writing are ahnost miknown. 



The crops of wheat and jowaree in Upper 

 Sindh vie in richness with any in the world ; 

 they are the great alternate crops in the upper 

 division of the province, whilst rice is the staple 

 of the Delta, yielding enormous crops, but of a 

 coarse description ; and that used by Europeans 

 or the more w^ealthy natives is imported from 

 Bombay. The finest rice is, however, grown 

 about Peshawur, and this latter kind was almost 

 exclusively used by the Ameers and their families. 



The dry crops depend entii'ely on the extent 

 of inundation. Wheat is sown about November 

 or December and reaped in A2)ril, being water- 

 ed from wells, or sown in the lands that have 

 been saturated by the inundation. Jowaree is 

 sown about April and reaped in December, 

 being watered all the time from the river. The 

 latter is a coarse grain, which forms the chief 

 food of the lower orders in Sindh. Its stalks 

 contain a great deal of saccharine matter, and 

 are a very nutritious kind of forage for all de- 

 scriptions of cattle. These stalks arc what in 

 India we call hii'hjj^ and which are given to 



