27th.—­Halted at our camp near Joke.  The Naree runs one and a half mile to the westward:  its bed is fifty yards wide and about ten feet deep; the banks are well clothed with Furas.  There is a good deal of Bagree cultivation.

28th.—­To Oostadkote, nine and a half miles.  The road is not a made one for the latter one-third.  Crossed the Naree about two miles from our encampment:  the country appeared the same.  On arriving near our halting place, green wheat fields, intermixed with much fresh Chenopodium, Gramen Panicum, Reseda were most abundant, Chloroideum, Sinapis, Raphanus cultivated with Taira meera, two Cruciferous plants common, Salsola lanata also occurs.  Water abundant in a channel of fifteen yards wide and three feet deep, clear and tasteless. Furas the most common shrub.  No grass occurs but the remains of Panicum.  Wheat is here sown in drills, in some places the crop is promising.  The country is evidently occasionally overflowed, witness the indurated surface and the fissures, which away from the road, renders it bad for camels, being full of holes.

There are several villages visible round our camp, all of the usual miserable description, and there is a good deal of Bagree cultivation.  The water does not extend more than a mile; it is eight feet deep, and about twenty yards wide towards the head, where the bund is thrown across.

March 1st.—­To Bagh nine and a half miles.  The country is quite similar:  the chief plants continue to be Chenopodium cymbifolium, Kureel, a Rairoo, Ukko, Joussa, and Salsola robusta, but occur in no great plenty, they and all the face of the country exhibit marks of inundation.  Bagh is visible a long way off from its being ornamented with a gamboge, or ochre-wash, otherwise its aspect is poor and muddy.  We came on the Naree about three miles from the town, and as it has been bunded, it is full of clearish blue water, to a good depth.  We encamped about one and a half mile on the south side of the town.  About the head of the bund there is a good deal of wheat cultivation, and some mustard.  In these khets Reseda is very abundant, Heliotrope is also common; I picked up a Matthiola and a Pommereulla.  The banks of the Naree are clothed with small Furas, which in these parts are always encrusted with saline matter, or, as it would seem, pure salt.  Rock pigeons both sorts, Loodianah rats, etc.

Bagh is celebrated for gunpowder; it is a largish, straggling, but poor place, though thickly tenanted.  Its latitude is 29 degrees 1’ 20”, and is placed thirty miles too far south in Tassin’s last map.  Sugar-candy from Bussorah and cloth, are the principal articles sold.