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(7) Sahai dhand, marked on the map as Sahaee je Dhund, is 



one of the largest of the Ivof, Jubo dhands, [t lias 

 probably 10 feet of wafer but there is shallow water 

 in the middle of the dhand. The dhand is slightly over 

 a mile long and is j mile broad. Sahai has a specific 

 gravity of 1-038 and contains I VI grams of Na 2 CO. t 

 and '25-7 grams of Nail per litre. The lake was covered 

 with thousands of flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) at the 

 time of my visit. These birds, which were also abundant 

 on Leyara dhand (see below) appear to prefer the saline 

 to the alkaline dhands. 



(8) Machoi (or Alujoi dhand), marked on map, lies about a Eurlong 



north of Sahai. and is a long very narrow dhand. [ts 

 water had a specific gravity of only 1*009, containing 

 ■1-8 grains of Na 2 C0 3 and 2-0 grams of NaCl per litre. 

 ( ( J) Lun Khan Ubrand dhand. fn the 1860 map there are two 

 dhatuh about H miles N.W. of Sahai : these are named Sone 

 je Dhund and Noon Khan je dhand. These two dhands 

 were united into one dhand at the time of my visit. .Mr. 

 Mahommed Ivhan, who lived lor main- years near Kot 

 Jubo and is very familiar with the past history of 

 this country, could not remember that there was ever 

 more than one long dhand, which he called Lun Khan 

 not Nun Khan. He observed also that there was 

 another dhand known as Lun Khan about 7 miles to 

 the west, and lying to thcN.E. of Kinri dhand. If- will 

 be observed that there are two dhands marked on tin; 

 map in this part, viz.. Lanehwalee Tith ami Dhoon 

 Khan jo Doobhan. The name Laniwari is now applied 

 to a dhand of small extent lying some 2 miles to the 

 north of these dhands (see ante). It would appear that 

 the dhand marked on the map as Lanehwalee is really 

 Lun Khan Ulan dhand, since the latter dhand is described 

 as a very long narrow dhand of over a, mile in length : 

 this description could only apply to Lanehwalee. The 

 water of Lun Khan Ubrand has a specific gravity of 1-035 

 and contains 12-7 grams of Na 2 C0 3 and 26-3 grams of 

 NaCl per litre. The dhand as it was at the time of my 

 visit was nearly a mile long but very narrow, and pro- 

 bably with not more than 1 or 5 feet of water. 



