At this time Nasrat Shah held the riverain on the left bank of the Ghogra but had lost Kharid of the right bank, which had been taken from him by Junaid Barlas.
They arrest the eye where they and their ribbons of cultivation space the riverain waste; they are obvious units for grouping into a sub-government.
The riverain tract, by virtue of its place on a highway of transit, must have been inhabited long before the town Nagarahara was built, and must have been known by a name.
Certainly the riverain tract would fall naturally under the government of any town flourishing in the delta, the richest and most populous part of the region.
It leaves Nagrahar to represent Nagarahara, the dead town; it makes the nine torrents of Safed-koh the primeval sponsors of Ning-nahar, the name of the riverain tract.
If it were, would it, when dead in the delta, persist along the riverain tract?
This shews that Babur did not recognize the Saran riverain down to the Ganges as belonging to Kharid.
As the riverain powers could not come to an agreement on the subject, the great powers at the congress of Berlin (1878) entrusted to Austria-Hungary the execution of the works in question.
John Whitehead’s letter, quoted by the Consul (Annex II to the Report) to obtain an idea of the ravages of the malady, to which this missionary attributes half of the deaths which take place in the riverain parts of the district.
On what facts, for instance, does he found his assertion that the riverain population of Lake Mantumba seems to have diminished from 60 to 70 per cent.
Panjáb, and riveraintracts are undersized, but in the uplands of the Central Panjáb and S.
Well cultivation is not of much importance generally, though some of it in the Jamna riverain is excellent.
The Chenáb riverain is poor, the Jhelam very fertile with good well irrigation.
There are two small riverain tracts on the Biás and Ráví and a poor piece of country in Ajnála flooded by the Sakkí.
Owing to the extreme scantiness of the rainfall the riverain depends almost entirely on the Indus floods, to assist the spread of which a number of embankments are maintained.
The only riverain towns of any importance on this stretch of the river to-day are Samsat, Birejik, Deir, 'Ana and Hit.
Osman Sheikh-ed-Din offered to lead the army, if he might arm the riverain tribes and use them as auxiliaries to swell his force.
Thirdly, he maintained among the desert and riverain people a balance of power on the side of his own tribe.
The Khalifa saw very clearly that he could not trust the riverain tribes.
The moral effect of its capture upon theriverain tribes and throughout the Soudan would be enormous.
If not--and herein lies the true reason for the venture--the riverain tribes would have received a crippling blow.
The riverain tribes were traitors--dogs--worthy only of being destroyed; and he enlarged upon the more refined methods by which his policy might be carried out.
In consequence, the riverain element, consisting principally of Jaalin and Danagla, represented a considerable portion of the force, and it was impossible for the Bazingers to refuse to return.
The Dacotas, or Sioux, frequented the riverain lands, in the southern region watered by the great flood.
Like so many other riverain tracts susceptible of cultivation, it once teemed with people, the villages along the banks appearing to be one continuous row of dwellings.
The re-occupation of the province of Dongola in 1896, freed the Nile up to Merawi, and gave the disaffected Kababish, Jaalin and riverain tribesmen a chance of reverting to their allegiance to the Khedive.
But four Woodpeckers are met with in the riverain woods of Buenos Ayres, and a fifth, a curiously modified form, is peculiar to the Pampas, while eight others are known with more or less certainty from the northern provinces of the Republic.
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