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and seem to have been sites of towns. As one continues to proceed 
westwards these sand hills begin to decrease, until at last only the 
ordinary sand hills, or waves of sand peculiar to these parts, remain. 
The ancient town or city of Ivhabah or Kliabo, before referred to, 
to the south-westwards of Jasal-mir, on the route to Mithraho (also pro¬ 
nounced, at times, Mitharo) and Khair-pur in Upper Sind, must once 
have been a place of great size and importance. It is said to have con¬ 
tained some eleven or twelve thousand houses, mostly constructed of bewn 
stone, many of which houses were of great size, and ornamented with 
stone carvings, the remains of which, still to be seen, attest the truth 
of the statements respecting it. There are also the remains of what 
must once have been two large buds or idol-temples, ornamented with 
stone carvings. When the Jasal-mir territory comes to be regularly 
surveyed, I apprehend that some interesting and valuable discoveries 
will be made, which will tend to throw some light upon the ancient 
state of these parts, once fertilized by the waters of the Hakra or 
Wahindah and its tributaries ; for, from the traditions and histories 
of the past, there can be no possible doubt, that these parts were once 
flourishing and populous, and contained several important towns and 
cities, the names of which have now been lost. 
I have not deemed it necessary to the subject to mention the still 
smaller tributaries of any of these rivers, only such as refer to the 
main subject. 
1 must now return to the Hakra or Wahindah again from where I 
left off on its entering Sind at page 422. 
I have already mentioned that it passes Sahib Garli and Kand- 
harah or Kandharo. It passed the latter place three miles to the west¬ 
ward, and close to Khan Garh of Bahawal-pur on the eastside, into the 
Rurln district of upper Sind; but, although the channel appears in 
our maps of the Bahawal-pur territory as the “ Dry Bed of Bainee 
Nullah called Wahund ,” it is only called by its correct names of Hakra 
or Wahindah in one: the rest have “Old Bed of Rr. Wandu” or 
“ Wandun .” 618 
613 This is called by all sorts of names. The “ Gazetteer of Sind,” page 4, 
says: “ The deserted course of a large river now known as the Ren Nala still exists 
in the Bahawalpur territory and the Rorhi district, and this joining the Nara [this 
is contrary to fact : the Narah unites with the channel of the Hakra or Wahindah], 
may very probably have emptied itself into the sea by what is now called the Kori 
mouth of the Indus.” 
When the “ Report on the Eastern Narra,” before referred to, was being drawn 
up in 1S52, little was known respecting the course of the Hakya, or possibly of its 
existence beyond the northern border of Sind, although Lieut. Fife of the Bombay 
Engineers, in his valuable “ Report ” (page 40) mentioned, that, “ from Clioondawa 
