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2 unquestionably is an exaggerated estimate. Outram? styles it *'Rough Notes,
3 a “paltry little village,” and Masson? says that: it contains 3 pa, Afg. Panj.
4 about twenty mud houses, inhabited by Hindoos, and eighty * *
5 huts, the abode of Mahometans.” This statement, though
6 sufficiently accordant with Outram’s account, is quite at variance
7 with that of Pottinger, but is in all probability far nearer the fact.
8 There is an insignificant manufactory of salt here. Lat. 25° 37’,
9 long. 66° 25’.
10 M.
11 MACHBE, in Beloochistan, a village of Cutch Gundaya, BE... Ms. Doc.
12 situate a little to the west of the road from the town of Gundava
13 to Larkhans, forty miles south of the former, and fifty north-west
14 of the latter place. Lat. 27° 54’, long. 67° 38’. ®
15 MADDERJEE, in Sinde, a considerable village on the route E.1.0. as. Doc,
16 from Sukkuy to Larkhana, and twenty-eight miles west of thé
17 former place. It contains about one hundred and fifty houses
18 and twenty shops. A plentiful supply of water is procurable.
19 from six wells, lined with burned brick, and there is convenient
20 encamping ground on the south-west of the village. Forage for
21 both camels and horses is in abundance. The road in this part
22 of the route runs through thin. jungle. Lat. 27° 36’, long.
23 68° 34’.
24 MAGAR TALAO! (Alligator’s pool),* in Sinde, a collection * E-L.C. Ms. Doc.;
25 of hot springs nine miles north-east of Kursachee, and swarming ir ig a
26 with alligators. De la Hoste states that there are two hundred PelsHoste, Rep.
27 of Country be-’
28 of those animals in a small space not exceeding a hundred and tween Kurraches
29 twenty yards in diameter. Some of them are very large, and their ee Tanee,
30 appearance, basking in the sun, is not unlike a dry date-tree. They #44.
31 belong to several fakirs, whe have attached themselves to the
32 tomb of a Mahometan considered by his countrymen to have been
33 a character of peculiar sanctity. Hence is the name Muggea
34 Peer, by which the place is popularly known among Europeans,
35 * From an alligator, and M5 a pool.
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