238 Essay on the Ancient Geography of India, [No. 3, 



there ; and on the other side of the river, begins that of Cach'ha. 

 From Bastdh to Ghain'deh, Ghai'deh, or Ghaireh, there are eight cos. 

 Three cos from Bastdh is a small reservoir of water. Ghai'deh is near 

 the confluence of the main branch of the Indus with the sea ; and 

 about half a mile from it, and to the east, is the village. The Indus 

 is called here, in the dialect of Cach'ha, Mehrdn, and Mehrawan, 

 which last is to be pronounced as a dissyllable. 



From Ghai'deh to Pokhyari, an insignificant village, there are ten 

 cos. It is on the western side of the Indus, which you cross. A little 

 to the north of Pokhyari, the Mehran sends a branch into the lake 

 Eirinos, and through it Alexander descended with his fleet. It is 

 called the Pokhyari river, even under Bastdh, 



From Pokhyari to Shah-bandar, they reckon 27 cos, and in all from 

 Ghai'deh 31 ; when you are obliged to cross the Indus three times. 

 Pokhyari consists only of a few wretched huts : hence to Rddi or 

 Beriy another place equally wretched, 8 or 9 cos. As the western 

 bank of the Indus is overgrown with the Luni shrub, and uninhabited, 

 they cross the Indus, and go to Sindhu, a small village inhabited by 

 Mussulmans, and 7 or 8 cos from Rddi, and on the eastern bank of the 

 Mehran. Hence 8 or 9 cos, there is another village called Balochara, 

 inhahited by Mussulmans likewise ; and going along the banks of the 

 river for 8 cos, they re-cross it, and land at a place called the Nawab's 

 Chokey, and Ghat; and go three cos by land, to Shah-bandar. 



The course of the route from Ghaireh to this place, is said to be N. 

 and S., or nearly so. There are boats at Pokhyari, and those, who 

 can afford to pay for them, go in one tide to the above Chokey, or 

 Guard-house. 



From Bastdh, you may go to Shah-bandar by the way of ' Abad y 

 leaving Ghai'deh several miles to the left. ' Abdd is two, or three cos 

 to the west of the main branch of the Indus, and two long days march 

 from Shah-bandar. It is called Hebath in the life of Mahmud Ghaz- 

 nevi, who took it. Abulfeda calls it Ebiath, and also Mow, which in 

 Hindi, signifies an inferior staple town, for various articles of trade : 

 but this difference is often disregarded. 



Another considerable town in the Delta, called Cacreldh or Cacar- 

 hdleh, is of late frequented by pilgrims, owing to a rich Hindu, who, 

 sometime ago, built a temple there, with a large house for himself, and 



