1094 Account of Khyrpoor and the Fortress of Btikur. [No. 107. 



Meer Roostum has issue seven sons : 



Moohummud Husun. 



Ulee Ukbur. 



Mooreed Hydur, (dumb.) 



Ulee Murdan. 



Sher Moohummud. 



Ullah Buksh. 



Ghoolam Moohummud. 

 Meer Ghoolam Hydur left issue : 



Moohummud Khan. 



Uhmud Khan. 



Moostufa Khan. 

 Meer Moobaruk died in 1839, and left issue five sons : 



Meer Naseer Khan, who succeeded to his father's possessions. 



Moohummud Ulee. 



Fuzl Moohummud. 

 By another marriage : 



Ulee Moohummud. 



Wulee Moohummud. 



Meer Chakur Khan has one or two sons, whose names I did not learn. 

 Meer Ulee Morad has issue three sons : 



Kuka. 



Sohrab. 



Ghoolam Hoosyn, born 1 839. 



Nearly all the royal family dwell in the capital. The prince's residence 

 is too insignificant to be called a palace, and has no appearance of splen- 

 dour or magnificence. The habits and manners of the court have the 

 character more of a nomade horde, than a settled government. Little 

 etiquette is observed. The armed retainers of Meer Roostum crowd 

 rudely into his presence, and though he is frank and affable, most of 

 his followers are deficient not only in courtly polish, but the common 

 forms of good breeding. 



From the proximity of Sind to Northern India, and the easy means of 

 communicating with that country by the Indus, it is strange that people 

 have borrowed none of the comforts and luxuries of their neighbours. 

 Sind was governed several hundred years by viceroys of the Moghul 

 empire, and has maintained an intercourse with Delhi since the invasion of 

 Moohummud Ghoree, in the end of the fourth century of our era. The 

 arts and manufactures are notwithstanding in a barbarous state, and with 

 exception of the silk fabrics of Thatta, exhibit no mark of good taste. The 



