31st.—­Arrived at Uzeeypore about 9 A.M.  Here we found horses and camels for our conveyance to Shikarpore.  Uzeeypore appears to be a well frequented passage of the river, although we did not see any ferry boats.  Bukkur is visible from it, apparently occupying a hill almost to the extreme right of a low range running south-west; it is seven or eight coss distant.  We left for Shikarpore about 2.5 P.M. and reached about 7 P.M.:  the distance is said to be twenty-four miles; the road is generally very sandy, although the sand is not very deep; the substratum being solid.  We passed some cultivation and a few villages, at one of which (Khye) there is a neat sort of fortification; here we changed horses.  The jungle throughout consisted of Furas, Tamarisk, Salvadora, Phulahi parva, the prickly Leguminosa, with the habit of Fagonia, Calotropis Hamiltonii, Saccharum.

Shikarpore is not visible until one reaches the clearing around the town; in the twilight it appears to be a very large place.

February 2nd.—­We do not proceed to Larkhanu, as daily news from Hyderabad is expected.  I see nothing likely to interest me about this place; there is absolutely not a flower to be got any where.  The jungles consist of Jhow, small Furas, Rairoo, a small arbusculoid Mimosa, Kureel, and Ukko, Calotropis Hamiltonii; Bheirs shrubby; one of the most abundant plants is the Joussa or prickly Leguminosa, with the habit of Fagonia; some of the saline loving Compositae, No. 51, frutex 2- 3 pedalis, foliis carnosis lanceolato-spathulatis, sessilibus.  Corymbis et Cymi axillaribus et terminalibus pauci capitat.  Floscules inconspicuis, also occurs.  Near the Shah’s tents there is a grove of Phulahi, all more or less demolished, and a good many Khujoors.  Hares and grey partridges appear common.  The changes of temperature are very great; in the mornings and evenings it is cold; in the afternoon the thermometer reaches as high as 82 degrees.

9th.—­Shikarpore is getting hotter every day:  thermometer ranges from 40 degrees to 85 degrees.

15th.—­The heat continued to increase until the 12th; the range of thermometer being from 50 degrees to 95 degrees; the evenings gradually became hotter, and the night although cool, had the peculiar thrilling coolness of tropical nights.

On the 12th, the barometer commenced falling, and has since continued to do so.  The visible signs of rain have been confined to cloudy mornings; the fall of the mercury is perhaps connected with the occasional strong northerly winds, which at times, as last night, blow nearly half gales.  The range of thermometer is now from 55 degrees to 85 degrees.  The change was sudden on the 9th or 10th; the nights were cold, thermometer at 5 A.M. 34 degrees 36’; and the days were only moderately warm.  The weather now is pleasant.  Shikarpore is disagreeable inter alia from its dust, every thing becoming covered with it.