CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAL
CONTENTS
UP THE INDUS.
HELPS'S ESSAYS.
JELLY-FISHES.
STEEPLE-JACK'S SECRET.
FOOD OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS—FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.
THE ARTIST'S SACRIFICE.
ACCIDENTS AT SEA.
'VISIT TO AN ENGLISH MONASTERY.'
AMERICAN HOMAGE TO SHAKSPEARE AND MRS COWDEN CLARKE.
TO WORDSWORTH.
INTELLECT DEVELOPED BY LABOUR.
CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF 'CHAMBERS'SINFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE,' 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE,' &c.
| No. 423. NEW SERIES. | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1852. | PRICE 1½d. |
UP THE INDUS.
Three years ago, I received orders to proceed from Kurâchee to Roreeby the river route, for the purpose of joining the siege-train thenassembling for the reduction of Mooltan. Subsequent events caused myfinal destination to be changed to Sukkur. Although my journey wasthus not so long as I had both expected and wished, yet I had anopportunity of seeing some three or four hundred miles of a river thatthe records of the past, and the anticipations of the future, alikecombine to render interesting, and which in itself differs in manyrespects from the other rivers of India. My position in life—that ofa non-commissioned officer of the ordnance department—has preventedme from gleaning information on the subject, either from books orofficial sources; but it may be that a narration of what I merelysaw, will not prove altogether without interest for those who mustrun while they read—who have neither time, nor perhaps inclination,to acquire any more than a superficial knowledge of distant countries.
Having been provided with a passage in one of the steamers of theIndus flotilla, and informed that the vessel was to start at daybreakon the following morning, I hastened to procure the necessarydocuments to authorise my obtaining ten days' sea-rations from thecommissariat department. The following was the proportion of food foreach day, and I may remark, that I received it from government gratis,with the exception of the spirits, as I was proceeding onfield-service:—1 lb. of biscuits, 1 lb. of salt beef or pork, 1-4thof 1 lb. of rice, 1 oz. and 2-7ths of sugar, 5-7ths of 1 oz. of tea,and 2 drams, or about 1-4th of a bottle of arrack, 24 degrees underproof. Having secured the provant, my min