1 mistfiy
2 The Shy-j'ok.
3 j /j HISTORY :* OF THE SIKHS.
4 and Hindoos have repeatedly* overcome this pre¬
5 judice; and the latter have penetrated at far as
6 Cabph while the former have as yet only spread
7 their conquests to Peshawur.
8 The course of the Indus is a very long one, and
9 no European traveller has yet visited its source.
10 Through the exertions of Moorcroft, Trebeck,
11 Gerard, Vigne, and others, its mountainous course
12 is pretty well known, while little remains to be
13 learned regarding the Indus in the plains. We owe
14 much valuable information to Bernes, who navigated
15 the Indus from the sea as far as the Punjnud; and
16 that at a time when great difficulties opposed his
17 progress, tor the Ameers of Scinde were then any¬
18 thing but friendly to the British, and placed every
19 obstacle in his way. They justly dreaded him as
20 the forerunner of invasion and conquest, as he
21 undoubtedly was, both in Scinde and Afghanistan ! '
22 It is believed that the Indus rises on the north¬
23 ern side of the great lvailas. In the native ac¬
24 counts of its origin, the mountain is called Kilroak,
25 but the ideas entertained by them on this head are
26 extremely vague. ,
27 The Indus receives in the plains five large rivers
28 united into one stream, named in consequence the
29 Punjnud.
30 One of the most remarkable of its mountain tri¬
31 butaries is the Shy-yok, which at its union with the
32 Indus, here named the Sin-ka-bub, is 150 yards
33 broad, while the latter is not more than eighty.