162 BURSTING OF THE BUND. 



large a body of water ; in several places, where 

 such had occurred before, these were tem- 

 porarily repaired, but in so insufficient a 

 manner that when the inundation was at 

 the highest the Bund bui'st, and had not 

 prompt measures been adopted, half the city 

 of Khyrpoor would have been washed away. 

 Fortunately the Meer was there at the time, 

 and exerted himself with great energy, as 

 did his eldest son, in seeing the breaches 

 in the Bund efficiently repaired. Indeed, they 

 remained on the spot the whole day, as it 

 was not until towards evening that the rush 

 of waters abated, for it was found necessary 

 to drive down large piles and fill the sj^aces 

 with wood, banked up behind with earth ; 

 and several hundred men, with all the carts 

 and asses that could be impressed in and 

 about Khyrpoor, were employed in bringing 

 materials. I must say that all hands worked 

 vigorously on the occasion ; but all were 

 seriously alarmed, from the sovereign do^m- 

 wards, and, as it was, the houses situated in 

 the low grounds were flooded and many walls 

 washed down. 



In the preceding year a similar inundation 



