1892.] H. G. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. 483 
of Aror, and about eight miles north-west of the Ra’m channel, the 
“ Rainee H.” of the maps, and twenty miles in the same direction from 
the old channel of the Hakra or Wahindah, close to Mitharo or Mitraho, 
and about fifty-four miles below the point where, as I have previously 
described, the Hakra separated into two channels after having, farther 
up stream, been joined by the tributaries constituting the Panch Had or 
Five Rivers. The “ island ” mentioned to the Collector of Haidar-abad 
by the native Revenue official, refers to the tongue of land which now 
exists, but greatly changed in the course of years, lying between the 
two channels entered in the Indian Atlas map as the “ Ghoorelehwah ” 
[Grhuri ke Wa-hah ? — The connection of this vitiated name with that 
of Fath Muhammad, Grhuri, of the native official, will be noticed], and 
the “ Rainee N.” The first branches off a little north of “Retee” [reti-^ 
1 sand ’] of the map, and passes east of Klxair-pur Dehr ke ; and the second 
branches off a little north of Wanjh-rnt, the Winjrote ” of the same 
map, which it passes on the west, both channels running about south-south¬ 
west, and the tongne of land in question lies between. Two miles east of 
this latter channel, the main channel of the Hakra or Wahindah, mis¬ 
called, “ the old bed of the River Wundun ” in the same map, branches 
off. 
The native official likewise stated, as reported by the Collector of 
Haidar-abad, that “ the bed of the Narra ,” as he called it, at Ghaus-pur in 
Ci no band one Icoss long and with a breadth of 40 guz, as described by the Collector 
of Haidarabad. * * * In the first place, the waters, a portion of which the 
hand confines, are those of the Gotekee or minor leht, and it in no way interferes 
with the flow of the Ahmedpoor or principal one, which used to find its ingress into 
the Narra chiefly by the Rainee channel,” etc. He then adds, that “ the causes of 
obstruction to the Khoonum Leht [ Kohan , old ; let, ‘ overflow ’ or ‘ flood ’] from 
Ahmedpoor, I am credibly informed, lie in the construction along the banks of the 
Indus, within Bhawul Khan’s territory, of extensive embankments, whereby the 
Khoonum Leht is prevented from encroaching into the adjacent tracts,” etc., etc. 
The band near Bihra [Bhira], however, was not considered to be the one refer¬ 
red to by the native revenue official ; for the Commissioner of Sind subsequently 
wrote, that “ it is still doubtful whether the obstruction is an artificial band, or a 
change in the course of the Indus.” 
Here they were, so to say, all right, and yet all wrong. The band referred to 
by the native official was situated about twenty miles farther east than Bhira, as 
described above. The “ Khoonum Leht,” here mentioned, flowed for some distance 
in the depression which was once the channel of the Panch. Nad when it united with 
the Hakfa at Dosh-i-Ab, but altered in the course of ages of inundations. 
I here append a facsimile of the map or sketch of the native official, with a 
correct tracing of the country he refers to from actual survey, from which it will be 
seen that, barring his drawing, it is correct as to the bed of the Hakra and Pano^ 
Nad near Ghaus-pur, and the direction in which the band was said to lie. 
