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The cultivation depends on the rain, and their drinking water is 



from a spring, which becomes brackish soon after issuing from the 



Goitre, ground. The men and women here are all afflicted with 



the goitre, which they say, arises from the salt quality of the 



water. 



The people all dress in red. They are gradually, under the rule of 

 Shahbaz, beginning to reinhabit the suburbs of the repaired fort, called 

 Narinj, which contains one hundred houses ; the other old fort contains 

 one hundred and fifty. 



On arriving at Teeree, I put up in the mosque, when shortly after, 



a very good looking woman presented herself, bringing with her bread 



and halwah, which she presented to me. Then taking hold of my 



skirt, begged me to attend to her petition. This was to give her some 



charm, to attract the attentions of her husband, which had 

 Charm. ' 



for the past six months been divided among his other wives, 



to her entire exclusion. I ordered the Persian writer to make out the 

 necessary charm, and gave it to her, as well as a piece of sugar-candy, 

 which I charmed by whetting it with my saliva, while I repeated sup- 

 posed incantations over it. This she was to give her husband to eat. 

 Whether he was pleased with the perhaps unusual attention and 

 fondness of manner of his wife, or how it was, I know not ; but she 

 Success, returned to me next morning, with a present of a sheep, 

 much pleased with the effect of my charm. 



My fame for charms soon spread, and fearing that I should have 

 hosts of female applicants, and that some of my charms might not 

 prove so efficacious as the first, I was glad to take my depar- 

 ture. 



On leaving Teeree, at the distance of three kos at the entranc3 



of the Darra-i- Barak, is the ruined fort of Rajnagar, generally known 



as Shahbazar. It is of a square construction, situated en 

 Rajnagar. . a < 



an eminence, and has a very large tank inside. I he 



position is a very strong one. Coal is found in the Darra-i-Barak 

 in the bed of the ravine, by digging. It is brought here by 

 floods, and there is no bed of it. To the east of Rajnagar is 



the Lachee road and the Darra-i-Barrak, to the west the Darra-i-khat- 



tak, to the north the Khattaks, and to the south the Khattaks, Shakar 



Darra, and Baghan. 



