196 Lieut. Irwin's Memoir of Afghanistan. [No. 98. 



in other circumstances this district much resembles the preced- 

 ing. 



Dagul. 

 224. This is a sandy and desert tract, in which bajra is the 

 chief produce ; the natives drink from tanks and deep wells. 



Shikarpoor. 

 225. Here, as in Dera Ghazee Khan, jooaree is the chief crop. 

 The proportion of irrigated lands is greater, and the jhular 

 is most used, this district being intersected by branches of the 

 Indus, natural or artificial. The khureef is the greater crop ; 

 the villages are of considerable size. The cultivation is consi- 

 derable, but some supplies of grain are drawn from the west and 

 north. In the town the houses are flat-roofed, but in the 

 villages thatch is more common. The town carries on a con- 

 siderable trade, chiefly with Candahar, and natives of this place, 

 or whose ancestors have been natives of it, reside in the prin- 

 cipal towns of these kingdoms, even as far as Bokhara, acting 

 principally as correspondents to houses in Shikarpoor. 



Seeweestan. 

 226, This is an agricultural country, and exports grain to 

 Shikarpoor, Kilat, and perhaps some other quarters, but its own 

 population is but inconsiderable. The chief place is Gunduwa, 

 which is reckoned to have 12000 houses, including its villages. 

 There is here a stream called Punjwahee, from which they irrigate 

 their fields. Another small stream is divided equally between 

 Dhadur and Sewee. Those places of Seeweestan, which are 

 situated to the north, have often small streams from the hills of 

 the Afghans, to the north of them ; still there is more Mm than 

 irrigated. There is very little irrigation from wells. A common 

 practice is to make a bank to confine the water, which after rain 

 is collected on the low grounds, and as soon as any place becomes 

 moderately dry, they sow their crops on the moist land. The 

 chief crops are jooaree and moth. There is no sugar raised in 

 this country. Their wheat and barley is but little, and for the 

 most part irrigated. Cotton is raised to a considerable extent. 



