664 Trip to Pind Badud Khan and the Salt Range. [July, 



plies abundant. Complaints made by the sepoys of my Seikh guard 

 that the bunneahs here were using a seer 6 pice less in weight than 

 the Company's seer, which is very much lighter than the Lahore one, 

 and which we should suppose is the seer used through the country 

 under the Lahore Government. 



March 17th. — Hurrin. — Halted here to-day as my tents were still 

 very wet and too heavy for the camels. Jhelum considerably swollen 

 since yesterday and the fields in its neighbourhood perfect swamps. 

 Several very fine poppy fields are growing near this, which are said to 

 yield good opium. Supplies in abundance and water remarkably good. 



March \&th. — Hurrin to Meanee, 7 kos. — Hurrin to Meanee said to 

 be 7 kos. Towards the Jhelum the country is well cultivated, but to the 

 south of the road until close to Meanee, dense bush jungle covers the 

 country. Several villages occur, the principal of which are Badshapoor, 

 Kirtowall, Chuckdunda, Mulick, Wall, Bula, Chuckseydeda and Ka- 

 lianpore. On arrival here was waited on by the Kardars, Mulk Doulat 

 Bai and Dass Mull. Around this village poppy fields are pretty nu- 

 merous and a good deal of opium is said to be made here. 



March 19th. — Meanee to Pind Badud Khan, cross Jhelum 3 miles. 

 Crossed the Jhelum this morning and reached Pind Dadud Khan, 

 which is only 3 miles distance from Meanee. The boats on the Jhelum 

 are remarkably large and good, and are propelled across the stream by 

 a large oar, the first we have seen on the Punjaub river boats. The 

 passage of the Jhelum is a very tedious one, from its breadth and the 

 strength of the current. Above Pind Dadud Khan it is divided into 

 two branches that unite into one main stream a little below the towns 

 which is about a mile distant from the river, and situated on a plain of 

 about 4 miles in breadth between the river, and the foot of the salt 

 range, and richly cultivated. Dispatched weekly diary to Lahore and 

 received a visit from Missers Bulla Bam and Gyan Chund, who oifered 

 a nuzzur of Bs. 110, which was accepted. The latter shewed me spe- 

 cimens of coal from Keurah, also lumps of iron pyrites from the same 

 place, and specimens of crystallized and compact sulphur from the 

 neighbourhood of Mokudd. 



March 20th. — Pind Badud Khan. — Accompanied by Jowhair Mukl, 

 one of the Missers Munshies, I started at daybreak to visit the dis- 

 trict where the salt mines of Keurah occur, and where a coal was said to 



