1216 General notice of the tribe of Kujjukzyes. [No. 108. 



6. Meeran son of Jan Mahomed Kuryazye. 



7. Door Khan „ Nusseer Kuryazye. 



8. Keemool Khan „ Tutebar Sagzye. 



The tribe is said to have numbered from seven hundred to one thousand 

 fighting men this year. 



The waters of the Naree, though latterly almost entirely kept by the 

 Kujjuks for their own use, was formerly divided as follows : — 



To the city of See wee eight shares and one " Ghanga,"* for the use of 

 its gardens. 



The village 



of Kujjuk, 



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Kooruk, 



8 



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Gooloo, 



6 



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Lohnee, 



4 



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Murukzanee, 



3 



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Sapee, 



6 



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Abdoola Khuer, 



3 



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Mahmood, 



2 



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Bukhera, 



2 



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Taken by Kujjuks 



Extracts from Capt, Hart's letter transmitting the alove. 



" A few miles from our camp is a large mound of earth, evidently the 

 remains of an ancient city. The people call it " Dumb-i-Dulora Shah," 

 who they say was a Kaffer king, who once reigned in Sinde, but owing to 

 his manifold crimes, particularly that of marrying his sister, showers of 

 ashes were rained on his cities by the Almighty. May not this king be 

 Dahir-ben-Chuch, sovereign of Sinde, when first invaded by the Mahome- 

 dans? 



" Should any thing turn up I wUl not fail to send it. I am told of five 

 other similar mounds, where caves are said to have been found, but veracity 

 is not a Sindian virtue, so until I can send people to search, I must doubt 

 it. There are so few persons who do know any thing of the country, that 

 at times I almost despair of acquiring any information ; what I do get is 

 purchased, for no one will open their mouths without being paid for it. 

 Books (where so few can read aught but the Koran) are not to be had ; one 

 Moolla in Dadur says he had one containing an account of the " Dumbs," 

 but it was burnt when his house was destroyed last November. That you 



'^ Ghanga, a water course always running — differing from that measured by the cubit, which was 

 on!y allowed to each cultivator one day and night in his turn. It was called a " Puo," and 

 again subdivided into <' Hitts," or finger breadths. 



