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and a half beyond which it makes a sudden bend to the northwards, 
then back again to a south-westerly direction, and runs towards 
Tulanbah, which it passes five miles to the south. From thence it runs 
in the direction of Multan as far as the point near which it used to 
unite with the Ohin-ab, when that river passed on the east side of that 
city to join the Biah, and which is about fifteen miles nearly due south 
of Sidliu ki Sara’e. In the space between this left high bank and the 
present channel, between Chichawatni and Tulanbah, are the remains 
of two or three other old channels in which it has flowed at different 
times, but now partly obliterated. 
On the opposite side, in the present Rachin-ab Do-abah, its 
extreme high bank can be distinctly traced beginning from about 
twenty-nine miles to the westwards of Labor, running in the direction 
of about south-south-west along the skirt of the Sandal Bar, farther 
west of which again is a part of the same Bar, extending from five 
to fourteen miles in breadth from west to east, and some eighteen miles 
from north-east to south-west, covered every here and there with 
mounds and hillocks, the sites of former towns and villages, and, in 
some places, with depressions. Patches of the same hard substance 
that composes the Chitr-ang Zamin, described farther on, also crop 
up here and there. These patches are described as “ beds of kankar,” 
but the formation is, apparently, just the same as that of the Chitr-ang 
Zamin alluded to above. 
Passing onwards from this in a direct line towards Ghugherah and 
It will thus be seen, that out of Haibat Khan, the ’A'zam Hamdyun (which 
last word, in this, as well as in the Badshah’s title, means august, fortunate, etc.) 
the writers have produced “ Human Chowghutta,” and “Hamdyun Shah” meaning 
of course Nasir-ud-Din, Mohammad, Humayuti Badshah [he was a Barlas Mughal 
by descent, one of the ulusis of Cha gh tide Kh an], with whom “ the mighty 
Chakar made war,” and even “ took Delhi, from him,” bub kindly restored it ! 
H ow he “ made war ” upon the ’A’zam Hamdyun , Haibat Kh an, I have already 
shown above. As to “ Hamayun Shah having very probably returned” to 
Hindustan “from Persia through the Bolan pass, and been joined by Chakar 
Kind, and other Biloches,” any History of India, even “Ferislita,” or “ Briggs ” 
would show, was totally incorrect. Humayun Badshah left Sind in August, 154-3 ; 
in January, 1546, he returned from Persia, and recovered Kandahar ; and it was 
not until eleven years and a half after that, that he set out from Kabul for Ju’e 
Shah-i, then by a raft on the river of Kabul to Pes’liawar, crossed the Indus at 
Nil-Ab, and marched straight on Lahor, and from thence through the Jalhandar 
Do-Abah, and Samanah, to Dihli. 
As to Chakar, the Rind, building the fort of “ Sevf (Sibi) and making it hie 
capital,” is on a par with his capture of Dihli. “A little history,” like “a little 
learning,” is “ a dangerous thing.” See my “ Notes on Afghanistan,” etc., page 
589, note ^[, and page 591, note # 
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