1200 Account of Khyrpoor and the Fortress of Bukur. [No. 108. 



of it.* The issue of tliis union was two sons and two daughters, one of 

 whom married her cousin, the son of Tajood-deen, and received half of 

 Umeer Wuhun for a dowry, Sudr-deen married first the daughter of his 

 uncle Uhmud, by whom he had six sons and two daughters, and secondly 

 the daughter of Suyud Ali of Sehwan, who brought him four sons and two 

 daughters. On his death his eldest son Budr-deen succeeded to the guddee 

 of the Suyuds. Sometime afterwards his brothers Ullah-ood-deen and Ta- 

 jood-deen went to hunt in the forest of Ali Wuhun, and applied to the 

 steward of the chase to defray their expenses ; this he declined without 

 Budr-deen's order, and his brothers enraged at his refusal slew him. Budr- 

 deen was restrained by his relations and the Ulema from punishing this 

 atrocious act, but their counsel displeased him, and he left Bukur resolving 

 to fix his residence for the future at Mooltan. He was met, however, at 

 Ooch by Hoosen Khan, a powerful Zumeendar of the Langa tribe, who had 

 heard that the chief Suyud of Bukur was approaching, and went forth with 

 his family to greet him, prevailed upon him by offers of service to settle in 

 that city. He married Hoosen Khan's daughter, and his brothers having 

 afterwards expressed regret for their conduct, returned with his wife to Bu- 

 kur ; about this time he betrothed his daughter to Suyud Julal of Bokhara, 

 who lived on the island of Khwaju-ka-than in the Indus above Bukur, 

 which gave great offence to his brothers, with exception of Tajood-deen, to 

 whom Moohummud revealed in a dream his approbation of the match. 

 His brothers continued in the same mind, and Budr-deen withdrew after 

 the wedding with Julal and his wife to Ooch, and never returned to his na- 

 tive city. The descendants of Tajood-deen, son of Sudr-deen by his 

 second wife, and grandson of Moohummud Mukaee, now occupy the first 

 place among the Suyuds of Bukur and Roree. His great-grandson Saood- 

 deen sat on the cushion a. h. 980. The posterity of Moohummud Mu- 

 kaee are scattered over the country between Labor and Thutta, and reside 

 chiefly at Lahoor, Ooch, Mooltan, Bukur, Sukhur, Roofee, Shikarpoor, 

 and Pulot. 



I did not ascertain the date Bukur was first fortified. Capt. Macmurdo 

 mentions that when the Urghoons made it their capital it-stood on an is- 

 land in the Indus, and Shah Beg built a brick wall round it for its defence. 

 I find in the history of the Suyuds that Shah Hoosen Khan Urghoon held 

 the government towards the middle of the tenth century of the Hijru, 



* Nusrut Khan died a. h. 717, and left a brother named Allah-ood-deen, who was 

 at Bukur at the time of his death. This event was followed by a revolution, and many 

 competitors started for the throne, but I am not aware who succeeded to it. The MS. 

 states briefly that the Jam of the Soomra tribe arrived about this time at Bukur, and 

 assumed the government. 



