NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE 



AT THE COURT OF 



MEER ALI MOORAD. 



CHAPTER I. 



Looms of Sinclli — Silk-Weavers — Goat's Hair — Raneepoor and 

 Gumbut — Summary from Report on Census of Sindh — Tlie Kul- 

 loree — An Aquatic Battue— Wild Fowl Shooting — Snakes — Cap- 

 tain 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 — Increase of Population — Propor- 

 tion of Sexes — Cattle — Wells — The Persian Wheel — Improve- 

 ments under Sir Bartle Erere — Construction of Bridges — Grand 

 Trunk Road — Military Road — Principal Routes in Sindh. : 



The looms of Sindh are employed in the 

 manufacture of various kinds of coarse silk and 

 cotton cloths, or of fabrics half silk and half 

 cotton, for which latter production Sindh was 



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