text:  From that period till the late occurrences all the commercial intercourse with British India was maintained either by land-carriage from Cutch by which mode of conveyance the opium of Malwa and Marwar (vast quantities of which are exported in this direction) chiefly found its way into Scinde and Beloochistan; or by country vessels of a peculiar build with a disproportionately lofty poop and an elongated bow instead of a bowsprit which carried on an uncertain and desultory traffic with Bombay and some of the Malabar ports