68 Dr. J. Ph. Yogeh—Tovihs on the Hab river. [June, 1902.] 



3. Tomhs on the Hab river in Sind and Southern Behichistan.^^ 

 By J. Ph. Vogel, Ph.D. 



(Abstract.) 



This paper describes a number of Muhammadan tombs, which are 

 found at various places in distances from 10 to 50 miles from Karachi, 

 and which exhibit some peculiarities. Some of them consist of several 

 oblong sarcophagi, raised one upon the other, and the dead corpses were 

 deposited inside them, not buried below ground, as was usually the 

 fashioti all over India. This mode of burying the dead is called the 

 Shdmi (or Syrian) fashion, as opposed to the Bwmx (or Turkish) fashion, 

 the usual one in India. It is evidently an importation from the West, 

 as it is said to exist also in Seistan and along the Mekran coast. 

 Another peculiarity is the existence near these Muhammadan tombs of 

 rude carvings of a man on horseback ; he often is represented as wear- 

 ing a bow or sword, and attended by other men on foot, wearing 

 matchlock. Some tombs, evidently of females, have representations of 

 female ornaments, instead of the figure of the horseman. The author 

 compares those carvings with similar ones, which are very common in 

 the Himalayan districts, where they are called muhras. They were 

 set up by Rajputs after the death of their chief, whose effigy they are 

 meant to show, and the author suggests that the existence of similar 

 representations at the Muhammadan tombs in Sind may be due to the 

 fact, that the Burfat tribe, to whom those tombs belonged, were of 

 Rajput origin. From inscriptions on some of the tombs in the Rumi 

 fashion, we learn that they belong to the middle of the 18th century. 

 The author is of opinion that the tombs of the Shami fashion may be 

 older, as this mode of burial apparently had become superseded later 

 on by the common Indian fashion, but he is not inclined to put them 

 down to a much earlier age, say not further than 1550 A.D. 



4. Ofi a pair of abnormal Deer Horns (with exhibition of sped' 

 men). — By F. Finn, B.A., F.Z.S., Deputy Superintendent of the Indian 



Museum. 



5. On Melanic specimens of the common Indian Squirrel (Sciurus 

 palmarum). — By Rai Bahadur Ram Brahma Santal. 



