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abundance of musquitoes, returned to Jattah. Jam Kheir-ul-din being 

 promised pardon, proferred his service ; he took with him all the zu- 

 meendars to Delhi, but when they reached Sehwan it was discovered 

 that the Jam meditated escape ; he was chained and imprisoned. After 

 a time Jam Junur, son of Jam Kheir-ul-din, was invested with the 

 governorship of Jattah, and in the year 790 H. Feiroz Shah died, and 

 790 H D th f Sultan Jughluk Shah succeeded him ; after him, Sul- 

 Feiroz Shah. tan Abu Bukur, then Sultan Mahamed Shah, then 



Sultan Sikundur Shah, then Sultan Nasir-ul-din, came to the throne 

 of Delhi : he sent Sazang Khan to take possession of Dibalpur, Multan 

 and Sindh ; and in the year 800 H., Mirza Pir Mahamed Nezah, a noble 

 of Timurs, crossed the river of Sindh, and invested the fort of Ooch. 

 Mulk Alii, who on the part of Sazang Khan was in that place, resisted 

 for a month. Sazang Khan sent Jaj-ul-din Khan with 4000 men to as- 

 sist him ; he released Mirza Pir Mahamed, and defeated Sazang Khan : 

 he invested Multan, and after six months Sazang Khan became obe- 

 dient and delivered up Multan. At this time Sahib Karan in the year 

 801 H. descended on Multan : from this period the Sultans of Delhi lost 

 801 H Th f dominion m Sindh over the governors in that country, 



the Delhi sovereigns who themselves obtained power. 



in Sindh decline. 



The Tribe of Sumrah. 



Some of this tribe ruled in parts of Sindh, as has been mentioned, 



previous to this. Thus the whole time that their 

 Tribe of Sumrah. , , , __ 



authority extended was 550 years ; and therefore, 



after the descendants of Jamim, the last of the deputies of Bini Abbas, 



seeing their power, the narrators of history began to make mention 



of them ; at that time, as will be mentioned, the government of Sindh 



passed to the Ghoris and Ghuzniris, and this tribe of itself became 



powerful, as will be related. 



And now the origin of this tribe is not clearly traced ; but they 



■ ' * . eo , were evidently old inhabitants of the country, and 

 Origin ot Sumrahs J J 



obscure. they are apparently connected with the descendants 



of " Sindh." In short, according to what has been previously related, 

 when in the year of 720 H. Ghazi Mulk collected the army of Sindh 



