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MEMOIR OF THE INDUS.
CHAP. IV.
the right hand of the Ameer, he was displaced at our
second interview, to make room for Meer Nusseer
Khan. Should. Moorad Ali attain " a good old age,"
these opinions may prove fallacious, as the stage
will then be occupied by other competitors, who are
at present in their childhood, and from among whom
some one, more daring than his relations, may meet
with success and power.
The Kbyrpoor chief, Meer Roostum Khan, suc-
ceeded to his father, who was killed in 1830 by a
fall from a balcony. He is about fifty years of age,
and has five sons and two brothers. This family is
so numerous that there are at present forty male
members of it alive, descended in a right line from
Meer Sohrab Khan. The chief maintains greater
state than the Hydrabad family. The territory is
extensive and productive, stretching on the east
bank from a short distance above Sehwun to the
latitude of 28° 30' north, and on the west bank
from Shikarpoor to within fifteen miles of Mittun,
on the verge of the Punjab, skirting on the westward
the mountain of Gendaree and the plains of Cutch
Gundava. There is little cordiality between the
Khyrpoor and Hydrabad Ameers; and the breach
has lately been increased by some disputes relative
to the duties on opium, of which the former have
hitherto, and in vain, claimed a share. The whole
family expressed themselves cordially attached to the
British Government; and evinced, by a continual
succession of kindness, and even munificence, to-
wards our party, that they were sincere in their
sentiments: none of them had ever before seen an
MEMOIR OF THE INDUS.
CHAP. IV.
the right hand of the Ameer, he was displaced at our
second interview, to make room for Meer Nusseer
Khan. Should. Moorad Ali attain " a good old age,"
these opinions may prove fallacious, as the stage
will then be occupied by other competitors, who are
at present in their childhood, and from among whom
some one, more daring than his relations, may meet
with success and power.
The Kbyrpoor chief, Meer Roostum Khan, suc-
ceeded to his father, who was killed in 1830 by a
fall from a balcony. He is about fifty years of age,
and has five sons and two brothers. This family is
so numerous that there are at present forty male
members of it alive, descended in a right line from
Meer Sohrab Khan. The chief maintains greater
state than the Hydrabad family. The territory is
extensive and productive, stretching on the east
bank from a short distance above Sehwun to the
latitude of 28° 30' north, and on the west bank
from Shikarpoor to within fifteen miles of Mittun,
on the verge of the Punjab, skirting on the westward
the mountain of Gendaree and the plains of Cutch
Gundava. There is little cordiality between the
Khyrpoor and Hydrabad Ameers; and the breach
has lately been increased by some disputes relative
to the duties on opium, of which the former have
hitherto, and in vain, claimed a share. The whole
family expressed themselves cordially attached to the
British Government; and evinced, by a continual
succession of kindness, and even munificence, to-
wards our party, that they were sincere in their
sentiments: none of them had ever before seen an