1840.] Account of Khyrpoor and the Fortress of Bukur, 1 105 



When the British army arrived in Upper Sind, the people refused the 

 New Company's rupee in payments for goods and labour, but prefer it now 

 to their own coin, which it threatens to supersede. The Company's rupee 

 stamped with the head of the late William IV. is worth one per cent, more 

 than the Company's rupee without his head. 



The Sohrab Rupee is divided into fractional parts, corresponding with 

 those of the Company's rupee in Northern India, as exhibited in the fol- 

 lowing tables : 



S'lnd Co 



in. 



Indian Coin. 



6 to 12 Kourees 



1 Udhree. 



6 Kourees 





1 Tolee. 



2 Udhrees 



1 Dumree. 



2 Tolees 





1 Dumree 



2 Dumrees 



1 Kuseera. 



2 Dumrees 





1 Chhudam 



2 Kuseere 



1 Udhela. 



2 Chhudam 





1 Udhela 



2 Udhele 



1 Pysa. 



2 Udhele 





1 Pysa 



3 Pyse and | 

 1 Kuseera/ 



1 Ana. 



3 Pyse and 

 2 Chhudam 



} 



1 Ana 



2 Pyse 



1 Tukka. 



2 Pyse 





1 Tukka 



51 Pyse 



1 Sohrab Rupee 









The implements of husbandry in Khyrpoor are cheap, and simple in 

 their construction ; and even the poorest peasant has a plough, but some- 

 times hires bullocks to work it. The daily hire of a pair of oxen for 

 agriculture is about the same every where, viz. four tukke, and the driver 

 gets five pys, or an equivalent in grain, and is not allowed to be absent at 

 noon to dine and repose. Two oxen are hired for a plough, or Persian 

 wheel, from dawn till sunset, for six or eight tukke, and relieved at noon. 

 Two pair will till a jureb of land in a day. The hire of a harrow (Sahur), 

 including the services of two men to guide, and four bullocks to drag it, is 

 one rupee per day, and half the sum if discharged at mid-day. 



A plough, including a yoke for a pair of oxen, costs 18 tukke, or about 

 16^;. English, half of which goes for labour. The items are as follow : — 



TukJce. 



The yoke (Punjaree) 2 



The handle (Koor) 31 feet long 5 



The shaft (Huriyn) 9 feet long 5 



The share (Choonee) 6 



Total, 18 



The wood is acacia and other common forest timber. The share is 

 about eighteen inches long, eight inches of which slide into a groove at 

 the foot of the handle ; it is shod with a thin plate of iron, five inches long, 



