The history of General Sir Charles Napier's administration of Scinde, and campaign in the Cutchee Hills . e could be no fear. Trukkee remained, but it was soon ascertained thatSimpsons column, which had frightened them from Jum-muck, had also deterred them from going across theravine of the Tomb, which, as it approached Deyrah,spread out into a spacious valley. Trukkee therefore wasnot their object then. There was a third course open,namely, to make eastward for the Mazaree hills, whichabounded with fastnesses even more inaccessible and aus-tere than the rocks they had just abandoned; and ther
The history of General Sir Charles Napier's administration of Scinde, and campaign in the Cutchee Hills . e could be no fear. Trukkee remained, but it was soon ascertained thatSimpsons column, which had frightened them from Jum-muck, had also deterred them from going across theravine of the Tomb, which, as it approached Deyrah,spread out into a spacious valley. Trukkee therefore wasnot their object then. There was a third course open,namely, to make eastward for the Mazaree hills, whichabounded with fastnesses even more inaccessible and aus-tere than the rocks they had just abandoned; and therethe general desired to drive them, for the following rea-sons.—Barbarian communities, having less to spare of thenecessities of life and less confidence in each others faith,are more sensitive to intrusions than civilized communi-ties ; and here the Jackranees and Doomkees would bedriven refluent upon the Bhoogtees, who were alreadysuffering from a dearth, and were more likely to quarrelwith than receive them amicably. They could then be allpressed closely until they surrendered, or were compelled. ADMINISTRATION OF SCINDE. 201 to break, half-starved and desperate, into the Mooltan or CHAP. countries, the last an eastern continuation of the \ hills. To discover the true direction of their retreat, thenarrow ravine in which the army was then encamped,was on the 29th explored eastward by a strong column oftroops; and soon a recent camp was discovered, where thefires were still burning, and where womens camel-litterscalled cujavds, being left on the ground, showed that bothchiefs and their families had been there. This sufficed,and the column returned. Very remarkable and desolate was the rocky solitudeinto which the operations had now brought the ravine, up which the exploring column had gone, wasformed by two ridges running east and westward, theground between being fertile though uncultivated; thenorthern ridge, pierced by the defile of Jummu
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