1 § Kennedy, i, 51.
2 9 Oxus, 10.
3 1 Wood, in App. il.
4 to Burnes’ Pers,
5 Narr. 356,
6 2 Outram, Rough
7 Notes, 6,
8 3 Pott. 832;
9 Horsburgh, 1. 492,
10 ¢ Pott. 341,
11 5 Carless, 5, 9.
12 © Burnes, Bokh.
13 ili, 296,
14 1489.
15 2 Belooch. 345.
16 3 Ind. Dir. 1. 402.
17 202 SINDE.
18 enter them. In the winter months the weather is very
19 mild; the fleet, which in 1838 conveyed the British arma-
20 ment to the mouth of the Indus, remained for nearly the
21 whole month of November at anchor in the open roadstead, at
22 the mouth of the Hujamree, and during that time experienced no
23 inconvenience. The capability of the coast of Sinde for the pur-
24 poses of navigation is thus summed up by Wood9 :-—* It is plain
25 to all who are conversant with nautical affairs that Kurrachee is
26 the only safe seaport for the valley of the Indus. When the
27 season is favourable, the merchant may indeed send his goods
28 direct to the mouth of the Indus ; but every thing here is subject
29 to such constant change—the weather, the depth of water, the
30 channels, and the very embouchure itself—that this voyage, even
31 in February, is not without hazards.”” He then observes, that
32 as the danger of entering the river is greater than of leaving it,
33 exports may be sent from the mouths in November, December,
34 and January, but that all imports should be brought by Kurra-
35 chee. It should be observed, however,. that though sea-going
36 ships of 400 or 500 tons can at no time safely enter the river,! yet
37 smaller vessels, if their draught do not exceed six or seven feet,
38 may do so. An inland navigation, or even a ship canal, could
39 probably be easily made from Kurrachee to the deepest and most
40 navigable part of the Indus below Hyderabad, as the Garrah, a
41 small stream? communicating with the Indus, falls into the sea*
42 at that port, and is navigable from it for boats as far as Garrah
43 Kot, a distance of forty miles.
44 ‘Kurrachee, the only port in Sinde for sea-going ships of
45 burthen amounting to four or five hundred tons, has, at high
46 water, a depth of two fathoms and a half, and at spring tides of
47 three fathoms; but, during the south-west monsoon, the swell
48 is so great on the bar, that it is highly dangerous to cross.4 The
49 Kookewarree,® called the Gora by Burnes,® the principal mouth
50 * Carless (Official Report on the State and Navigation of the Indus, p.
51 6) uses these words :—~‘‘ The Garrah, a small stream that conducts them (large
52 boats) to the harbour of Corachee ;’’ and Masson! states, that ‘‘ the salt water
53 creek of Garrah has a communication with Karachi ;’’ but in the MS. map of
54 Sinde of the Quartermaster-general, No. 1, the mouth of the Garrah is laid
55 down on the eastern side of Kurrachee Bay, and ten miles east of the entrance
56 into the harbour. The intervening country is, however, represented by Pot-
57 tinger ? and Horsburgh? as perfectly level, and consequently a canal could
58 easily be dug through it.