

CONTENTS or VOL. 11. 



CHAPTEE I. 



Looms of Sindh — Silk-"Weavers — Goat's Hair — Eaneepoor 

 and Gumbut — Summary from Eeport on Census of 

 Sindh — The Kulloree — An Aquatic Battue — "Wild Fowl 

 Shooting — Snakes — Captain Croker's Encounter with a 

 Boa Constrictor — Accident to H. M. 17th Dragoons in 

 the Mahratta War — Swordsman and Sow — Wounded 

 Horse — Advantage of a little Medical Knowledge — 

 Quinine a Panacea for all Diseases — Vaccination — The 

 Crops of Sindh— Similarity of Climate to that of Egypt 

 — Overflow of the Indus — Canals for Irrigation — In- 

 crease of Population — Proportion of Sexes — Cattle — 

 Wells — The Persian Wheel — Improvements imder Sir 

 Bartle Erere — Construction of Bridges — Grand Trimk 

 Eoad — Military Eoad — Principal Eoutes in Sindh . 1 



CHAPTEE II. 



Eevenue System — Assessment on Crops — Eorms of Col- 

 lection — Land Eevenue in Government Territory — 

 AYeights and Measures — Currency — Balance of Caste in 

 Khp'poor Territory— Character of the People— The Be- 

 loochees of Sindh— Want of Education— Indifference to 

 the Pine Arts — Hindoo and Mahomedan AVomen— Civil 





