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As these turtles snap so furiously, their pieces of meat 
are fastened to a string hung from the end of a long stick 
and so handed out to them. 
10. — The Crocodiles of “ Mugger Pir,” Karachi. 
Pir Mangho, the tomb of Haji Mangho, is commonly 
called “ Mugger Pir” (pronounced “ Mugger Peer ”) on 
account of the crocodiles living in the tank at the foot of 
the tomb {see PI. III). It is about ten miles from the 
Karachi Post Office, and, I am told, about six miles east of 
the Hub River, the frontier between Sind and Baluchistan. 
In “ The Karachi Handbook ” (Sind Gazette Press), 1913, 
on page 58, we read : “ Pir Mangho has undergone that 
curious metamorphosis which is exemplified in the names of 
so many English public houses and become Mugger Peer, 
which will be its name when the last of the “ muggers ” is 
a specimen in the Karachi Museum. It is the tomb of 
Haji Mangho, a holy hermit who is said to have settled 
there about the middle of the thirteenth century.” 
Haji Mangho was an Arab ( vide “ Karachi Guide and 
Directory,” 1913, p. 85). His tomb is a place of pilgri- 
mage for Mohammedans. “ It is also a resort of Hindu 
devotees, who call it Lala Jasraj” ( vide “ Karachi Hand- 
book,” loc. cit. supra.). 
From the “Karachi Handbook” I also learn that Lieut. 
Carless of the Indian Kavy visited the place in 1838 and 
wrote : — 
“The swamp is not more than 150 yards long by about 
80 yards broad, and in this confined space I counted above 
200 large ones (crocodiles), from 8 to 15 feet long, while 
those of a smaller size were innumerable.” 
Capt. E. B. Eastwick visited Karachi about 1841 and went 
to “the Magar Talao,” as he calls it, in August or Septem- 
ber. In his book, “ Dry Leaves from Young Egypt,” 
3rd Edition, 1851, page 218, he writes that he saw ; 
“ at least three score huge alligators, some of them fifteen 
feet in length.” In the copy of this book in the Karachi 
General Library in the Frere Hall (which the Librarian very 
