ADVANTAGEOUS POSITION OF SINDH. 9 



SO the Punjaub, whose rivers are uncertain and 

 often unnavigable, and which has no surround- 

 ing markets to purchase the surplus fruit of its 

 industry. The distance from the sea face^ too, 

 is great, and the means of reaching it for the 

 most part tedious and uncertain. 



" In every respect, then, Sindh has the ad- 

 vantage of the Punjaub, in position, soil, facility 

 of transit leading to remunerative markets — 

 everything in fact which tends to give wealth to 

 nations. Yet Sindh, if we include her military, 

 is not a self-supporting country, but annually 

 draws upon the general revenue of the state. 



" Five millions sterling is not perhaps an ex- 

 cessive estimate of what has been spent in the 

 Province since our occupation of it, besides its 

 own revenues circulating through the Province 

 and enriching the population. 



" Our policy in Sindh has been reduction of 

 taxation, which has been effected to a large ex- 

 tent, from what it stood under the sovereignty 

 of the Ameers. 



" All obnoxious taxes on commerce have been 

 happily abolished." 



Here, however, I must return to my royal 



