1843.] of the Panjab and Affghanistan. 573 



are Moghuls and Jats; the head man is Akir Khan Moghul. This 

 stage was five kos. The revenue is 800 rupees including the district 

 of Jalalpoor. 



22nd Rajab. — Proceeded eight kos to Jalalpoor, which is situated 

 on the side of a hill, below which runs the river. 

 It contains two thousand houses and seventy shops, 

 and has fifteen wells for cultivation. In the town is a small mud fort 

 with four bastions, garrisoned by ten men of Rajah Gulab Singh. Re- 

 venue 16,000 rupees. The head man is Sher Khan, by caste a 

 Janjooa. 



23rd Rajab. — Travelled ten kos to Chaki Hameed, passing Sherpoor 

 at three kos. The place contains two hundred houses 

 and two shops. There are fifteen wells for cultivation. 

 The revenue is 1,500 rupees, including the district of Pind Dadan 

 Khan ; the head man is Rajah Futteh Khan, by caste a Jalab. On 

 arriving at the place, the Rajah was seated in a takya, and conver- 

 sation ensued, in which he enquired my native town, and on learning 

 it, invited me to his house, where he entertained me, and produced 

 spirits in the course of the evening on account of my successfully 

 prescribing for his son's and sister's excrescences ; he detained me as 

 his guest three days. 



27th Rajab. — Travelled to Pind Dadan Khan, which consists of 



three divisions, distant from each other from two to 

 Pind Dadan Khan. , . _ . 



three hundred yards ; one ot which only is properly 



called Pind Dadan Khan ; it contains three thousand houses and three 

 bazars of about three hundred shops. There are three gates to the town, 

 but the surrounding wall is so dilapidated, that there are thorough- 

 fares in all directions. Outside of the town to the west, is a mud 

 fort with four bastions, in which there is stabling for thirty of Rajah 

 Gulab Singh's horses, and a garrison of thirty sepoys under one 

 Takurdass. There is also a small iron gun outside the fort. There 

 were thirty or forty heaps of salt, containing about 5,00,000 maunds, 

 covered with a coating of mud to render them water proof. There is 

 a large steel-yard here for weighing the salt, which is allowed to be 

 sold no where else. The other division or suburb is called Kot-i- 



Sultan, containing five hundred houses, and a bazar of 

 Kot-i-Sultan. , m , 



ntty shops. There are two gates, one to the north, 



