208 Journal of a voyage from [March, 



"We visited the tomb of the Pir Shekh Sved Jala Bokka'ri'. 

 The interior of the building was curious ; the roof was su; ported by 

 more than thirty arches resting on four colonades of wooden carved 

 pillars ; there were a great many graves and some relics from distant 

 countries. Amongst these were the preserved spinal bones of several 

 saw-fish. The pilgrims who go to Mecca from Affjhanistdn and the 

 Derajat by passing down the Indus, frequently come thus far out of 

 their way from Mithankot to visit the shrine of Shekh Sved Ja- 

 la'l, and implore his intercession for the safety of their journey. A 

 descendant of this Pir is still living at Uch, but the lands formerly 

 belonging to the family which enabled them to live in a style of 

 splendour and comparative refinement among a barbarous people, have 

 long since been usurped, first by the nazims of Multdn, and since 

 then by the Daudputra chiefs. They have now barely sufficient for 

 their support ; their influence over the common people is, notwith- 

 standing, very considerable, and they are generally respected. 



From Uch Bhokhdrian we proceeded to the Uch of the Gilanis, which 

 appears to have been formerly joined to it, but is now distant about 

 half a mile ; on our way we passed through large topes of date trees. 

 Hazrat Shekh Muhammad Ghos Jila'ni', round whose shrine this 

 town was built, and after whom it was named, was descended from 

 Hazrat Shekh Abdul Qadir Jila'ni' Baghdad!', and came to Uch 

 about the year A. D. 1394. The Daudputras have continued to be 

 his ?nurids and the murids of his successors from the time of their 

 first leaving Shikdrpur. 



This Pir's family had considerable assignments of lands in the 

 vicinity of Uch before the arrival in the country of the Daudputras, 

 and up to the time of the 2nd Baha'wal Kha'n their territory and 

 wealth had continued increasing, and Makdum Gang Buksh, who was 

 then the Pir Murshid, was second only in influence to the Khan, and 

 kept in his pay a considerable standing force ; he built a fort at 

 Uch and surrounded the town with a wall. His son, also named Mak- 

 dum Gang Baksh, headed a revolt of the Daudputra tribes against the 

 second Baha'wal Kha'n in 1799, and releasing Bahawal Khan's 

 son, Mubarak Kha'n, from confinement, set him in opposition to his 

 father. The Khan besieged him in the town of Uch, destroyed the 

 fort, and laid the town in ruins, and obliged the Pir with his son to 

 flee to the territory of the Amirs of Sindh. The lands belonging to 

 the Pir's family were on that occasion forfeited to the state, and have 

 never been restored. A few years since a grandson of this Pir returned 

 from the Sindh country to take up his abode at Uch, and six or eight 

 wells have been allowed by the present Khan for his subsistence. 



