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on a Saturday, as I expected to return by the same route the 

 following week. A range of low hills of irregular form lie to the 

 westward of, and almost close to, the Chunder Koops. I had 

 not time to examine them, but from their appearance I judged 

 they contained sulphur, and on questioning some of those with 

 me, and who crossed them, they said the taste of the earth was 

 like that near the hot springs at Sehwan, where it is known 

 to abound. A Noomreea who was present, mentioned that about 

 six koss off there was another hill called by the name of the 

 " sulphur mountain." 



Leaving the Koops on our left, we continued our route 

 towards the greater Haras, increasing our distance from the 

 sea as we advanced. An isolated cluster of hills on the shore, 

 called the ee Sath Durwauza," and a rock near them, were pointed 

 out as spots much reverenced by the Hindoos ; a range of sand 

 Bura and chota singhui, hills soon hid them from our sight, and we 

 s and n miles. crossed the beds of many nullas, the banks of 



which were thickly lined with tamarisk and baubul trees. This 

 tract is called the u Chota Singhui," and a well in one of its 

 water courses is generally the halting place for pilgrims. We 

 found it dry, and pushed on three miles further to the ee Burra 

 Singhui," where in a nulla, at no great distance from the moun- 

 tains, we came to another well with sufficient water in it for us 

 all. A Beerooee musician with his family here joined us for 

 the sake of the food he was certain of obtaining as long as he 

 remained in our company. A camel and pony, the one led 

 by his son, carrying his wife and two children with their baggage, 

 and the latter ridden by himself with his sitar, was all they 

 possessed. He told me he had left his village in Mukran to 

 visit Beila, in the hope of collecting grain by his skill in music, 

 but not meeting any one who appreciated his merits, he was 

 now on his way home. He earned a precarious subsistence 

 by travelling to the camps of the different chiefs, and reciting 

 the wars of the Yokeeas and Beloochees; they sometimes re- 

 warded him with gifts of food and clothes, &c. The animals he 

 now had, had been thus presented to him. He remained with 

 with us some days, and on his leaving he begged the money I 

 gave him might be exchanged for tobacco or grain. From the 



