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bury them. They remained in their own houses and the doors were 

 walled up. The unfortunate survivors removed to the south and built 

 huts there. A similar epidemic is mentioned by Hamilton, which 

 carried away 80,000 of the inhabitants. These tombs were built by 

 Deryd-khdn, a descendant of another person of that name, and prime 

 minister to Jam-Firoz, king of that country, according to Abul Fazil. 



This Derya-khan was only a governor of Tha't't'hd, in the time of 

 Shah Jehan, and who rebelled against his sovereign. Being defeated 

 in battle, he was taken prisoner and brought to Delhi, where he was 

 treated with unparalleled lenity. Capt. Hamilton is entirely mis- 

 taken, when he asserts, that he was king of Sind, and of course his 

 descanting upon the misfortunes of the king and queen of Sind, is 

 quite ridiculous and preposterous. 



Maullavi Saleh, declared to me, that there is no arm of the Indus 

 between the town and the hills, and that he is fully persuaded from 

 the nature of the ground that there never was one. The town is 

 about a mile from the river. I conceive also that Capt. Hamilton is 

 mistaken about the distance from Laheri-bandar to Tha't't'hct,. I 

 suspect, that he brought his ship to Shah-bandar from which he went 

 by land to Tha't't'ha ; then we must read forty cos instead of miles. 

 His Dun-ganh is called Dun-gurry in the Ain Acberi ; the first signifies 

 the village, and the other the fort of Dun. 



In the country of Macarene or Macr&n, Stephanus of Byzantium 

 mentions the river Maxates, which is obviously the Macshid of Otter : 

 but its situation is still unknown : and it is not the same river with the 

 lUMend or Hdb* 



In the course of the foregoing essay, I have often mentioned 

 Nautical Surveys along the coasts of Sind and Macrdn : for these I 

 am indebted to the learned work of Dr. Vincent. Every attempt of 

 mine to procure them in this country, constantly proved abortive. 



* Steph. Byzant. voce Alexandria. 



