Sindh and the Races that Inhabit the Valley of the Indus; with Notices of the Topography and History of the Province

The territory called Sindomana by the Greeks the Sindhudesha of the ancient Hindoos the Sind` of the Arabian geographers and the Sindhu of its present inhabitants is bounded by the Bahawalpur territories on the north and on the south by the Indian Ocean. [...] The whole of this tract is within the ifluence of the sea-breeze ; but the inundations of the Indus and the fierce rays of the sun combine to render the atmosphere essentially insalubrious. [...] The number of yards excavated for the rupee depended upon the nature of the soil the height of the spoibanks the distance to which the excavated earth had to be carried and other such considerations. [...] The rate demanded from the peasant was as variable as the value of the crop the description of soil '5 the weather the inundation the necessities of the ruler and a variety of similar considerations could make it. [...] Pistarah or carriage of the grain and Kahgil or smeaing the granary together with alms for the village Fakir the Mulla and other beggars and presents to the different officers as the Kamdar the Kotwal the Karawo or individual who guarded the grain and the Paimankash (the person who measured or weighed the produce).