Memoir on Thar and

Bullocks.
154. Great numbers of bullocks are reared in the Desert, and annually driven away from
thence to Guzerat for sale; they are generally of a smallish breed, that is, smaller than the
fine large Guzerat or Kutch bullock. The traders who take them away—for the
purchasing of them in the Desert, and taking them to Guzerat, is quite a trade,—do so
when they are about three or four years old ; the average price may be estimated at from
15 to 20 Rupees per bullock, and the annual number exported about five thousand.
Camels.
155. Camels are extensively bred in the Thurr and Parkur; they are the only beasts of
burthen in general use there; wheeled conveyances are unknown in the Thurr, and not
much used in Parkur. The estimated number of camels in the Thurr and Parkur at present
is ten thousand.
156. This memoir would be incomplete, without a short review of the revenue and
expenditure of the districts for the last few years, and a few remarks on the present state
and prospects of the charge and its inhabitants. The figures below show a large annual
deficit, notwithstanding which I hope to show that the acquisition has not proved such an
expensive one, as the deficit would at first lead one to suppose. Facts and figures are
stubborn things; appearances, however, are not less deceitful, and often lead to erroneous
conclusions. The gross revenue during the last seven years gives the following result:—
1849-50 1850-51 1851-52 1852-53 1853-54 1854-55 1855-56
Land Revenue 24,843 7,394 21,736 19,740 6,085 23,701 28,588
Customs and Opium 10,276 11,252 11,610 4,091 655
Judicial receipts and
unclaimed property 663 413 803 591 430 669 738
Total 35,782 19,059 34,149 24,422 6,515 24,370 29,981
157. The pay of Revenue and Police establishments, compensation to Chiefs, is for the
same period as noted below: —
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