DHAT, an isolated and now dependent chief tainship of which Oomerkote is the capital. It separates the Bhatti race from the Jareja race. Its prince is of tho Pramarn race and Soda tribe, ancient lords of all Sind. The Dhatti is the Rajput tribe inhabiting Dhat, and in no greater numbers than the Kaorwa, whom they resemble in their habits, being entirely pastoral, cultivating a few patches of land, and trusting to the heavens alone to bring it forward. They barter the ghi, or clarified butter, mado from the produce of their herds, for grain and other necessaries of life. Rabri and chauch, or porridge and buttermilk, form the grand fare of the desert. A couple of seers of flour of bajra, jooar, and kaijri is mixed with some seers of chauch, and exposed to the fire, but not boiled, and this mess will suffice for a large family. The cows of the desert aro much larger than those of the plains of India, and give from eight to ten seers (eight or ten quarts) of milk daily. The produce of four cows will amply
subsist a family of ten persons from tho salo of ghi ; and their prices vary with their productive powers, from ten to fifteen rupees each. Rabri, analogous to the kotts-kous of the African desert, is often made with camel's milk, from which ghi cannot be extracted, and which soon becomes a living mass when put aside. Dried fish from the valley of Sind is conveyed into the desert on horses or camels, and finds a ready Rale amongst all classea, even MI far east aa Barmair. It is sold at two dokra (coppers) a seer. The poora, or temporary hamlets of the Dhatti, consisting at most of ten huts in each, resemble those of the Kaorwa.—Ted'R Rajasthan, I. p. 45.