910 Report on the Country between [No. 105. 



The amount thus realised from Kurrachee is the produce of the land 

 and sea customs, there being little or no revenue derived from the 

 soil. 



I can form no idea here of what the revenue of Tatta and Sehwan 

 may be ; the tax on the " Mahamios," or fishermen on the Indus, is a 

 considerable source of wealth to the rulers of the country.* 



The only Rivers of any note in this tract are the Hubb, (which rises 



Rivers, near Zehrey, and enters the sea, west of Cape Monge) 

 and the Barran ; the others, consisting of the Mulleere Hurchee, Leaeer, 

 Kowranee, Rooah, Peepree, Goorban, Murraie, Pokun, Warkees, Kay- 

 jooree, and Doombeh, are all mountain streams, dry the greater part of 

 the year, but water always found by digging a few feet in their 

 beds. I am led to believe that a sufficient quantity might be 

 readily obtained (by excavating large pools in the rivers) for irri- 

 gation, were the excessive taxation abolished, and greater protec- 

 tion afforded the cultivators. This is a matter of serious consideration 

 on the route from hence to Sehwan direct, as the great difficulty 

 now to be overcome, is the want of supplies on the line of route. 

 In the Pokun Kayjooree, or Doobee (the same rivers, only at different 

 points, so called from halting places) water would not be found 

 probably without great labour, but were holes or pits made, the 

 water would remain in them. Their beds are rocky, the others sandy. 



The Hubb has been traced from the Pubb hill to the sea, a distance 



Hubb. of fourteen and a half miles, throughout which a depth 

 of water of eight inches in the month of September was found, 

 and in some places deep pools, abounding with fish and alligators. The 

 river is said never to fall even in the driest seasons, and is the chief 

 resort of the Soomries and Belooches. This does not appear to be 

 the description of a Jine river^ but in this part of Scinde a running 

 stream (except after rain) is seldom met with. 



The Hubb enters the sea west of Cape Monge (Mooaree) and be- 

 tween it and the island of Churna or Churn. It rises near Zehrie, and 

 has been traced from near Hoja Jamote, in the route to which place 

 a description of it is given. 



The Barran rises in a mountain called Kirter, north-west of 

 Barran. Humlanee thirty coss, and joins the Indus two and a 



* In preparation — E.P.D. 



