'Bombay Geographical Society. Index to the First Seventeen Volumes of the Society's Transactions. With Catalogue of the Library, and Catalogue of Charts, Maps, Sketches, and Views.' [‎147] (174/372)

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Shorkote, the town of, India, ix. 58.
Shortt, Major A. Y., report of an earth
quake in Kutch by, xvii. 297.
Shougre, a town, Arabia, i. 100.
Skubar, the, a tribe of Babria Kattees,
India, vii. 76.
Shunkerghur, India, account of a re
markable hailstorm at, ix. 194.
Shumzabad, the village of, India, ix.
66 .
Shunur-i-Belou, a village and fort,
India, vii. 141.
Shurakhail, a tribe, India, x. 28.
Shurjah, an Arabian village, ii. 41*.
Shuster, a town on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
xvii. 32, 34, 38, 39, 58, 59, 144, 154.
Siahmenseer, a village, Persia, xvii. 145.
Siakh, a district, Persia, xvii. 180.
Siam, the Gulf of, xv. 105.
Siam, the kingdom of, xvii. 51.
Siaposh Kafrs, Memorandum on the,
by C. Masson, v. 42; obscurity of
their origin and early history, 42-47;
allusions to, in the memoirs of Baber,
48; in the works of early travellers,
49; extent and nature of the country
they inhabit, 50-53; its physical fea
tures and natural productions, 53; the
people and their mode of life, 54-56;
their language, 56; akin to that of
several neighbouring tribes, 58, 59;
their treatment of their dead, 59; of
their women, 60, 61; their social
habits and peculiar customs, 62, 63;
account of the people by an Affghan,
64-66.
Sibella, a ship, xv. 48-50.
Siberia, account of the black soil of,
xiii. 97, U'
Sicily, the coast of, xvii. 236.
Sidhpoor, a village, India, iii. 146.
Sidh Raj Jysing, an Anhulwara king,
India, vii. 5.
Sidon, the ancient city of, xv. 93.
Sifweh, the ruins of, Persia, ix. 284.
Sikhs, the, AfFghanistan, account of
their origin, rise, religion, military
power, character, and present moral
and political condition, by C. Masson,
( Esq., v. 129-149.
Silana and Halria, a talooka or district
of Katteewar, India, vii. 50, 94.
Silgedah, a village, India, ix. 85.
Silhouette, an island of the Seychelle
group, ii. 22.
^Silhouette, an island of the Seychelle
group, xvii. 25, 28.
Silsilis, Egypt, xv. 86, 87, 89, 132.
Silu, a town, India, ii. 53.
Simla, a town, India, xv. 30.
Simla, India, account of a remarkable
hailstorm at, ix. 191.
Simla, India, account of meteors observ
ed at, ix. 202.
Simla and Kurnaul, account of a remark
able hailstorm at, ix. 193; xii. 20.
*Simla, India, the observatory of, xvii.
107.
Simmon, a tribe, Africa, vi. 66.
Simmon, a province at one time annexed
to Enarea, Africa, vi. 164.
Simoom at Bagdad, account of the, xiii.
Appendix, 3.
Simoda, the Bay of, Japan, xvi. 20.
Sinai, peninsula of, i. 141; Bedouin
tribes inhabiting, 170.
Sinai, the wilderness of, xv. 15; xvi.
70.
Sinanoda Sea, Japan, xvi. 119.
■^Sinclair, Dr, his remarks on Mr Broun’s
paper on the Wet-Bulb Thermo
meter, and on magnetical observations
generally, xvii. 107.
Sind from Kutch, Extract from a
Journal of a Trip to, by Colonel
G. Le Grand, C.B., xvi. 22; departure
from Bhooj, 22; the Koar Bet, 24;
the Dera Bet, 24; account of the
Thur desert, 24 ; the town of Deepla,
26 ; the village of Wanga, 27 ; the
custom of selling daughters universal
among the Sodas, 28, 29.
Sind, India, account of a remarkable
hailstorm at, xii. 18.
*Sind, India, xvi. 22, 97.
Sind, India, xvii. 59, 77,291, 303, 305.
*Sind, India, paper relative to canal
irrigation in, xvii. 86.
*Sinde, account of missions to, and sur
veys in, xii. 89.
Sinde, the former climate of, xii. Appen
dix, 7.
Sinderee, the town of, India, account
of the outbreak of several mud vol
canoes at, x. 152.
Sindhri, a town, India, ii. 52.
Sindhy, a tribe, India, i. 327.
Sindole Ghaut, India, account of a re
markable hailstorm at, ix. 187.
Sindhoo or River Indus, Observations
on the, by Captain J. Macmurdo, iii.
124; resemblance of the Indus to the
Nile, Hindu names for it, its floods,
125 ; state of the river at Bhukir
and Rohri, 126; its tributaries and
lakes, 127 ; its canals, 128-130; its