The memoir adds: Fateh Ali was succeeded by his brother, the present Ghulam Ali, and he by his son, Karam Ali. The general correctness of this outline is proved by a very interesting work (which has only fallen into my hands in time to make this note), entitled _Narrative of a Visit to the Court of Sinde_, by Dr. Burnes. Bijar Khan was minister to the Kalhora rulers of Sind, whose cruelties at length gave the government to the family of the minister. As it is scarcely to be supposed that Raja Bijai Singh would furnish assassins to the Kalhora, who could have little difficulty in finding them in Sind, the insult which caused the fate of Bijar may have proceeded from his master, though he may have been made the scapegoat. It is much to be regretted that the author of the _Visit to Sinde_ did not accompany the Amirs to Sehwan (of which I shall venture an account obtained nearly twenty years ago). With the above memoir and map (by his brother, Lieut. Burnes) of the Rann, a new light has been thrown on the history and geography of this most interesting and important portion of India. It is to be desired that to a gentleman so well prepared may be entrusted the examination of this still little-known region. I had long entertained the hope of passing through the desert, by Jaisalmer to Uchh, and thence, sailing down to Mansura, visiting Aror, Sehwan, Sammanagari, and Bamanwasa. The rupture with Sind in 1820 gave me great expectations of accomplishing this object, and I drew up and transmitted to Lord Hastings a plan of marching a force through the desert, and planting the cross on the insular capital of the Sogdoi; but peace was the order of the day. I was then in communication with Mir Sohrab, governor of Upper Sind, who, I have little doubt, would have come over to our views. Footnote 8.2.34: [The chief connexion of the Sodhas with Cutch is through the marriage of their daughters with leading Jāreja and Musalmān families. Their women are of great natural ability, but ambitious and intriguing, not scrupling to make away with their husbands in order that their sons may obtain the estate (_BG_, v. 67).] Footnote 8.2.35: See sketch of the tribes, Vol. I. p. 98. Footnote 8.2.36: _Nayyad_ is the noviciate, literally new (_naya_), or original converts, I suppose. [In other parts of India they are known as Naumuslim.] Footnote 8.2.37: _Dagra_ is very common in Rajputana for a ‘path-way’; but the substitute here used for _rassa_, a rope, I am not acquainted with. [For a large collection of similar taboo names for persons, animals, and things see Sir J. Frazer, _The Golden Bough_, “Taboo and Perils of the Soul,” 318 ff.] Footnote 8.2.38: [The name cannot be traced in recent Census Reports.] Footnote 8.2.39: [_Salvadora oleoides_ or _persica_ (Watt, _Econ. Dict._ vi. Part ii. 447 ff.).] Footnote 8.2.40: