Burnes, Alexander: Travels into Bokhara: containing the narrative of a voyage on the Indus from the sea to Lahore, ... and an account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia ; performed by order of the supreme government of India, in the years 1831, 32, and 33 (Band 1) (London, 1835)

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MEMOIR OF THE INDUS.

CHAP. IV.

5000 each; which gives a population of nearly
200,000 souls. The number of people in the delta
does not exceed 30,000; and the parts away from
the river, both to the east and west, are thinly
peopled; for pastoral countries are not populous.
The villages within reach of the inundation are,
however, large and numerous; and, including the
whole face of the country, there cannot be less than
a million of human beings. One fourth of this
number may be Hindoos ; and the greater portion
of the Mahommedans are descended from converts
to that religion.