“ the feed of a pomegranate, and which he hides in the calf
u o f his leg.
“ T he Jigger kb ar throws on the fire the grain before
“ defcribed, which thereupon fpreads to the fize of a difh,
“ and he diftributes it amongft his fellows- to be eaten, which
“ ceremony concludes the life o f the fafcinated perfon. A Jig-
u gerkhar is able to communicate his art to another, and which
“ he does by learning him the incantations, and by making him.
“ eat a bit o f the liver cake. If any one cut open the calf o f the
“ magician’s leg, extract the grain, and give it to the afflicted
“ perfon to eat, he immediately recovers. Thefe Jiggerkbars,
“ are moftlywomen. It is-faid, moreover, that they can bring
“ intelligence from a great diftance in a fhort fpace o f time,.
“ and i f they are thrown into a river with a ftone tied to them,
“ they neverthelefs will not fink. In order to deprive any one
“ o f this wicked power, they brand his temples, and every joint
“ in his body ff cram his eyes with fait, ffifpend him for forty'
“ days in a fubterraneous cavern, and repeat over him certain-
u incantations. In this ftate he is called D etcher ch. Although,.
u after having undergone this difcipline, he is not able to.
“ ■ dellroy the liver o f any one, yet he retains- the power o f
“ being able to difcover another Jiggerkhar, and is ufed for
“ • detetting tbofe difturbers of mankind. They can alfo cure
“ many difeafes by adminiftering a potion, or by repeating an
u incantation.”' Many other marvellous ftories are told of
thefe people.
T he Delta has not on it a tree, but in the dry parts is
covered with brufhwood. In the time of AbulFazel, the inhabitants
bitants hunted here the wild afs, or Koulan, Hift. Quad. i. p. 8.
The fame author aflures us, that the camels were fo numerous, C a m e l s .
that feveral of the inhabitants were poflefled o f herds o f ten .
thoufand each, a number exceeding the Hock of the patriarch
Job, on the return o f his profperity. Multitudes of camels ftill
are bred on this tra ff; the reft confifts o f noifome fwamps, or
muddy lakes. The Ritchel branch is the ufual way to Patta-,
as high as the lake reaches it is a mile broad, at Patta only half
a mile. The tide does not run higher than that city, or about
fixty-five miles from the fea.
Bakbor is an antient city and fortrefs; in its neighborhood, B a k h o r .
on the banks, were obferved, by a modern traveller, who went
up the river as far as that city, feveral o f the moveable towns,
built o f wood, fuch as are mentioned by Nearcbus, and in the
Ayeen Akberry. They are inhabited by fiihermen or graziers,
who’ conftantly change their lituation like peribns encamped.
There were other towns, fays Arrian, Rer. Indie, i. p. 52S, on
the higher grounds, and confifted of houfes built with bricks
and mortar. Beyond Bakbor, on the eaftern bank of the Indus,
are Dary and Ken, and Bibigundy-cbeck, and Sitpour, each known
. to us only by name.
In Lat. 29" 8', on the eaftern fide of the Indus, we meet T h e S t t l e g e .
with the conflux of the Setlege, or Hefudrus, With that river.
The town of Feb is at the forks. It is remarkable, that it is the
only river we meet with from the difcharge o f the Indus into
the fea to this place, a tract o f above five hundred and twenty
miles. It is the fouthern boundary of the Panjab, or the P a n j a b .
region of five rivers, fo much celebrated for the bloody a c t i o n s
F a . within