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. xih.

CHAP. XIII.

on bhawul khan's country.

The small territory eastward of the Indus, which
lies between the confines of the chief of Lahore and
the Ameers of Sinde, belongs to Bhawul Khan
Daoodpootra. His frontier to the north may be
loosely said to be bounded by the Sutlege, or Garra,
but at Bhawulpoor it crosses that river, and, run-
ning westward to a place called Julalpoor, comprises
a portion of the country between the Sutlege and
Acesines, the Acesines and the Indus. The Rajpoot
principality of Beecaneer bounds it to the east. It
has Jaysulmeer to the south, and, on that part
where it approaches Sinde, a tract of four miles
in either country is left without tillage, to prevent
dispute on the marches.

The greater part of this country is a barren waste
of sand-hills. In the vicinity of the rivers, the tract
is rich and fertile, watered, like the other banks of
the Indus, by the annual swell. The towns are
few in number, and scantily distributed, but there
are numerous hamlets on the Acesines. Bhawul-
poor, which stands on the left bank of the Sutlege,
has a population of about twenty thousand people,
and is the mercantile capital; the walled town of
Ahmedpoor, farther south, and about half the size,