490 Roree in Khypoor. [No. 114. 



Pys. 



At the gate of Roree, 2 



Halfway, i 



At the gate of Kyrpoor, 2 



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The distance between these places is only 8 kos. 



Between Roree and Shikarpore, 16 kos, he pays:— 



Pys. 



At Roree, 2 



Indus ferry, 3 



At Sukhur, 9 



Village ofDriha 4 kos from Sukhur, 4 



Barrier of Shikarpore, 5 



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or nearly one shilling "English. These heavy charges are the consequence 

 of Roree, Sukhur, and Shikarpore being under separate Governors. 

 Hire of cattle from Roree to Shikarpore, and Khyrpoor. 



Rs. Js. Rs. As. 



Of a Camel, 1 4 1 



Of a Horse or Pony, . . . . . . 12 or 16 8 or 9 



OfaMule, 10 8 



Of an Ass, 7 5 



Hindoo merchants and Bankers exact 24, and sometimes 36 per cent, 

 for money borrowed by zumeendars and persons in needy circumstances, 

 and collect it monthly. But in money transactions with each other they 

 only take 6 per cent. No moosulman practices usury. 



Ferries are little frequented excerpt on the line of commercial intercourse, 

 and the roads leading directly to large towns : in other situations they 

 do not give regular employ to the boatmen. Flying bridges of a single 

 rope fixed to stakes on the banks, are thrown across canals and streams 

 cut from the Indus, and a man pulls the passenger across in a boat. 

 The charge for crossing the Indus is, one pys a head for foot passengers 

 double for an ass, and quadruple for a cow or buffalloe, and on small 

 rivers like the Anul and Nuhra, half these respective amounts. 



Boats proceeding up and down the Indus before the treaty of 1839, 

 which established the free navigation of the river, paid a toll of one rupee 





