text:  For this purpose a _place d'armes_ has been judiciously established at Sukkur a town which communicating with the fort of Bukkur on an island of the Indus and with Roree on the opposite bank effectually secures the passage of the river; and the ports of Kurrachee and Sonmeani on the coast the future marts of the commerce of the Indus have also been garrisoned by British troops