FOOTNOTES

FOOTNOTES[1]Lord Ellenborough, then President of the India Board.[2]Arrian, lib. vi. c. 19.[3]An officer who receives a guest.[4]Banians.[5]Arrian, lib. 6.[6]The species hunted in Sinde is called “hotapuchu:” it is a kind of hog deer.[7]Narrative of a Visit to the Court of Sinde. Edin. 1831.[8]It would appear from this, that they smoked in that age: it must have beenbang, or hemp, since tobacco was unknown till the discovery of America.[9]Ayeen Acbaree.[10]It was my conversation with these men which made me decide on undertaking the journey to Central Asia, which I afterwards performed.[11]“May the Gooroo be victorious,” the national war-cry of the Seiks.[12]Salvadora Persica.[13]God.[14]My journey to Bokhara made me better acquainted with these topes, as has already appeared in Vol. I.[15]Instead of giving separate maps of the Indus and Central Asia, I have now combined the whole of the geographical matter in one map, as has already been explained.[16]These have been necessarily omitted in the reduced map.[17]In this part of my subject, I have to express my fullest acknowledgments to Mr. James Prinsep, Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, who has kindly afforded me his valuable assistance.[18]As this work is passing through the press, intelligence has reached England of the death of this Ameer, which has been followed by a civil war.[19]The death of the last Ameer has amply verified such a supposition.[20]This limited extent of the delta of the Indus is quite inconsistent with the dimensions assigned to it by the Greeks. Arrian informs us that the two great branches below Pattala are about 1800 stadia distant from each other, “and so much is the extent of the island Pattala along the sea coast.” The distance of 125 British miles, the face of the modern delta, does not amount to 1125 stadia, or little more than one half the assigned distance of Arrian. On this point the Greeks had not personal observation to guide them, since Nearchus sailed out of the western branch of the Indus, and Alexander made but a three days’ journey between the two branches of the river, and could not have entered Cutch, as has been surmised by Dr. Vincent.[21]See “A Memoir” regarding this mouth, at the end of the volume, which contains an account of some singular alterations in physical geography, as well as a notice of the Run of Cutch.[22]By Mr. Crow.[23]Mimosa Arabica.[24]Melia Azadarachta.[25]Ficus religiosa.[26]Vide lib. v. c. 7.[27]A more full account of the Punjab has been given in Vol. II., which was drawn up after my last visit to that country.[28]We performed the voyage from one junction to the other, in six days, against the stream.[29]See “Principles of Geology,” by Charles Lyell, Esq., F.R.S. London, vol. ii. 1832.[30]This battle was fought near a small village of that name. The inhabitants of Cutch made a brave stand for their independence against a Sindian army led by Ghoolam Shah Kulora.[31]Captain (now Lieut.-Col.) D. Wilson, of the Bombay army, found a ford here in 1820, in a part of the river 500 yards wide. In 1826, I found a depth of fifteen feet in the same place.[32]Blackstone.[33]Since my return to England, I have been so fortunate as to procure a view of Sindree, as it existed in the year 1808, from a sketch by Captain Grindlay, who visited it at that time. It has been engraved for this work, and faces Chap. XVI. Captain Grindlay’s observations on Sindree follow in a note.[34]I have suppressed various opinions which I had formed on the causes of these constant changes, deeming them of small value. The paper has been also published at length by the Royal Asiatic Society of London.[35]Dhooan.[36]Called “Khur-gudha” by the natives.[37]This class of people are yet numerous in Cutch: it is among them that the horrid custom called “traga” prevails. It consists in sacrificing one of their number when any injury or oppression is offered to their community, under a belief that the blood so shed rests on the head of those who oppress them.[38]I have since found, in some manuscript papers of the late lamented Captain M‘Murdo, written as long since as 1815, that he formed similar conclusions with myself regarding the Run of Cutch. He is treating of that part of it near Kattywar, of which I have not spoken, and the following extract is both curious and satisfactory:—-“The Runn has every appearance of the sea having shortly withdrawn from it. This is supported by the semblance and production of the neighbouring country, and large stones are found on the shore several miles from the present Runn, of a description similar to those used as anchors; they have holes bored through for the cable. On the shore, at different places, are shown small ancient buildings, called Dan Derees, or houses where the dan or customs were collected; and, in short, it is a tradition in the country, that Khor, a village two miles east of Teekir, was a sea-port town. About fifty years since, the wreck of a vessel, of a size far beyond that of any of the craft now in use in the Gulf of Cutch, was discovered at Wawania, sunk in the mud about fifteen feet deep.”—Captain M‘Murdo’s MS. Memoir on Kattywar, August, 1815.

[1]Lord Ellenborough, then President of the India Board.

[2]Arrian, lib. vi. c. 19.

[3]An officer who receives a guest.

[4]Banians.

[5]Arrian, lib. 6.

[6]The species hunted in Sinde is called “hotapuchu:” it is a kind of hog deer.

[7]Narrative of a Visit to the Court of Sinde. Edin. 1831.

[8]It would appear from this, that they smoked in that age: it must have beenbang, or hemp, since tobacco was unknown till the discovery of America.

[9]Ayeen Acbaree.

[10]It was my conversation with these men which made me decide on undertaking the journey to Central Asia, which I afterwards performed.

[11]“May the Gooroo be victorious,” the national war-cry of the Seiks.

[12]Salvadora Persica.

[13]God.

[14]My journey to Bokhara made me better acquainted with these topes, as has already appeared in Vol. I.

[15]Instead of giving separate maps of the Indus and Central Asia, I have now combined the whole of the geographical matter in one map, as has already been explained.

[16]These have been necessarily omitted in the reduced map.

[17]In this part of my subject, I have to express my fullest acknowledgments to Mr. James Prinsep, Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, who has kindly afforded me his valuable assistance.

[18]As this work is passing through the press, intelligence has reached England of the death of this Ameer, which has been followed by a civil war.

[19]The death of the last Ameer has amply verified such a supposition.

[20]This limited extent of the delta of the Indus is quite inconsistent with the dimensions assigned to it by the Greeks. Arrian informs us that the two great branches below Pattala are about 1800 stadia distant from each other, “and so much is the extent of the island Pattala along the sea coast.” The distance of 125 British miles, the face of the modern delta, does not amount to 1125 stadia, or little more than one half the assigned distance of Arrian. On this point the Greeks had not personal observation to guide them, since Nearchus sailed out of the western branch of the Indus, and Alexander made but a three days’ journey between the two branches of the river, and could not have entered Cutch, as has been surmised by Dr. Vincent.

[21]See “A Memoir” regarding this mouth, at the end of the volume, which contains an account of some singular alterations in physical geography, as well as a notice of the Run of Cutch.

[22]By Mr. Crow.

[23]Mimosa Arabica.

[24]Melia Azadarachta.

[25]Ficus religiosa.

[26]Vide lib. v. c. 7.

[27]A more full account of the Punjab has been given in Vol. II., which was drawn up after my last visit to that country.

[28]We performed the voyage from one junction to the other, in six days, against the stream.

[29]See “Principles of Geology,” by Charles Lyell, Esq., F.R.S. London, vol. ii. 1832.

[30]This battle was fought near a small village of that name. The inhabitants of Cutch made a brave stand for their independence against a Sindian army led by Ghoolam Shah Kulora.

[31]Captain (now Lieut.-Col.) D. Wilson, of the Bombay army, found a ford here in 1820, in a part of the river 500 yards wide. In 1826, I found a depth of fifteen feet in the same place.

[32]Blackstone.

[33]Since my return to England, I have been so fortunate as to procure a view of Sindree, as it existed in the year 1808, from a sketch by Captain Grindlay, who visited it at that time. It has been engraved for this work, and faces Chap. XVI. Captain Grindlay’s observations on Sindree follow in a note.

[34]I have suppressed various opinions which I had formed on the causes of these constant changes, deeming them of small value. The paper has been also published at length by the Royal Asiatic Society of London.

[35]Dhooan.

[36]Called “Khur-gudha” by the natives.

[37]This class of people are yet numerous in Cutch: it is among them that the horrid custom called “traga” prevails. It consists in sacrificing one of their number when any injury or oppression is offered to their community, under a belief that the blood so shed rests on the head of those who oppress them.

[38]I have since found, in some manuscript papers of the late lamented Captain M‘Murdo, written as long since as 1815, that he formed similar conclusions with myself regarding the Run of Cutch. He is treating of that part of it near Kattywar, of which I have not spoken, and the following extract is both curious and satisfactory:—-“The Runn has every appearance of the sea having shortly withdrawn from it. This is supported by the semblance and production of the neighbouring country, and large stones are found on the shore several miles from the present Runn, of a description similar to those used as anchors; they have holes bored through for the cable. On the shore, at different places, are shown small ancient buildings, called Dan Derees, or houses where the dan or customs were collected; and, in short, it is a tradition in the country, that Khor, a village two miles east of Teekir, was a sea-port town. About fifty years since, the wreck of a vessel, of a size far beyond that of any of the craft now in use in the Gulf of Cutch, was discovered at Wawania, sunk in the mud about fifteen feet deep.”—Captain M‘Murdo’s MS. Memoir on Kattywar, August, 1815.

“The Runn has every appearance of the sea having shortly withdrawn from it. This is supported by the semblance and production of the neighbouring country, and large stones are found on the shore several miles from the present Runn, of a description similar to those used as anchors; they have holes bored through for the cable. On the shore, at different places, are shown small ancient buildings, called Dan Derees, or houses where the dan or customs were collected; and, in short, it is a tradition in the country, that Khor, a village two miles east of Teekir, was a sea-port town. About fifty years since, the wreck of a vessel, of a size far beyond that of any of the craft now in use in the Gulf of Cutch, was discovered at Wawania, sunk in the mud about fifteen feet deep.”—Captain M‘Murdo’s MS. Memoir on Kattywar, August, 1815.

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