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cription of goats and cattle. The ghee is excellent, but the dealers adul- 

 terate it with flour before they carry it to the markets.* A Khyrpoor 

 goat gives commonly three-quarters of a seer of milk, and a fine one that 

 yields a seer is worth two rupees. Goats kept for the table sell at from 

 twelve to twenty anas a piece. A male costs one rupee, and when trained 

 to fight, which is a rather favourite pastime, twice and thrice the sum, and 

 a kid from eight to twelve anas. A good breed comes from Gumo, in the 

 district of Khyrpoor, but Boordgah is considered to produce the finest 

 goats, sheep, and cattle, of any place in the prince's territory. Oobaro, in 

 north Khyrpoor, produces ghee in great abundance, and immense herds of 

 buffaloes are grazed on the banks of the Indus in the districts of Boong 

 and Bara.t The females cost from twenty-five to forty rupees,t according to 

 the quantity of milk they yield, a calf ten, and the highest price of a 

 male is twenty-five rupees. A ram costs IJ rupee: a ewe that gives half 

 or three quarters of a seer of milk, the same : ewes reserved for slaughter 

 one rupee, and a lamb from ten to twenty anas. 



The best horses and asses come from Afghanistan and Persia. The 

 horse of Sind is small, lean, and of miserable aspect, but hardy, and capable 

 of enduring great fatigue. Mules for burthen and hire are kept chiefly at 

 Khyrpoor by Talpoorees, who are too poor to entertain servants, and 

 usually accompany the animals. 



The ass, like his fellow of Arabia and Egypt, is a small active animal, 

 with considerable power of endurance, and so useful that there is hardly a 



* In India ghee is adulterated with Muhooa oil, the shukurkund, or sweet potatoe, 

 and the ghoiya vegetable, &c. 



f The width of the Khyrpoor territory at Bara and Boong is only ten or twelve 

 miles, and extends along the Indus about thirty miles north of Sulzulkot, and terminates 

 between Boong and Rajinpoor. The possessions of the Ameer of Khyrpoor are repre- 

 sented in Arrowsmith's map to include Rojhan, the chief town of the Muzaree Belooch, 

 but do not project north of Keen in Kuchee, which is nearly opposite Boong. The late 

 Rajah Runjeet Sing seized and annexed Miyan Rojhan to his dominions in the 

 middle of 1836, because of an attack by the Khyrpoorees on his frontier post. 

 Arrowsmith's map of central Asia, dedicated to Lieutenant, now Lieut. Colonel Sir A. 

 Burnes, is I believe the most correct chart of the Indus that has been printed, and at 

 that time (1834) Rojhan belonged to Khyrpoor. 



The travelling distance from Buhawulpoor, in Daoodpootra, to Feerozpoor is 160 kos, 

 or 225 English miles. The kos in Daoodpootra is about one mile and three furlongs 

 English, and the frontier extends within 56 miles of Feerozpoor. The Indus constantly 

 changes its channel, and a survey of its course this year might give a very inaccurate 

 representation of it the next. In the summer of 1839 upwards of 40UU bighas of land, 

 partly cultivated, situated midway between Ooch and Mittun, were transferred by a 

 caprice of the stream from the Sikh territory to Buhawulpoor on the east bank. The 

 river is gradually deserting Ooch, which is now upwards of three miles from the bank 

 in the dry season. 



X These were the prices at Roree and Sukhur before the British entered Sind, and 

 may be taken as the average throughout the country. 



