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Port Officer and Port Engineer, and a portion of the Indo-European
Telegraph establishment are resident here. An annual fair is held in
March in honour of a pir or saint, said to have been buried under
miraculous circumstances. Manora hill is a very healthy place, and
an occasional resort for invalids from Karachi; it is ioo feet high at
its east end, descending to 40 feet at the west end. At the distance of
2,310 feet to the east of Manora is a breakwater, which forms the
protection of the entrance to Karachi harbour in that direction.
Opposite the north end of this breakwater is the landing-place, with
three jetties on the island of Kiamari : the Commissariat, the Passenger,
and the Customs jetty. About 3 miles from the jetties is an island, on
which is a meteorological observatory. There are fortifications and
barracks, a dispensary, and a middle school for European and Eurasian
girls at Manora Point. The entire peninsula has now been constituted
a cantonment.
Mānpur.-An isolated British par ana in Central India, situated in
the Bhopawar Agency. The pargana, which has an area of 6o square
miles, is bounded on the north, south, and east by portions of the
Indore State, and on the west by the petty holding of Jamnia. It lies
on the edge of the Vindhyan scarp, and is intersected by numerous
spurs of that range, covered with jungle. In the valleys the soil is
of high fertility. The climate is temperate, the temperature ranging
between loo' and 72°. The annual rainfall averages 33 inches.
Manpur was originally a part of the Mandu sarhJr of the Sfbah of
Malwa. In the eighteenth century it fell to Sindhia. In 1844 Mānpur
was included in the tracts assigned by Sindhia for the maintenance
of the Gwalior Contingent, and under the subsequent treaty of 1860
it was one of the districts of which possession was retained by the
British Government.
Population fell from 5,342 in 1891 to 4,890 in 1901, Hindus forming
53 Per cent. and Animists 37 per cent. of the total. The inhabitants
consist mainly of Bhils, a fact not entirely brought out by the census
figures, as many were returned as Hindus. Native Christians numbered
241, chiefly belonging to the Roman Catholic Mission station at
Khurda.
Of the total area, i i square miles, or 18 per cent., are cultivated,
of which only 332 acres are irrigated. About 15 square miles, or
25 per cent. of the total area, are capable of cultivation ; 30 square
miles, or 50 per cent., are under forest : and the rest is waste. Maize
occupies 7 square miles, jowdr and wheat 2 square miles each, and
POPPY 127 acres.
The pargana is in charge of a kamisddr, who exercises the powers of
a third-class magistrate. All civil cases and serious. crimes are dealt
with by the Political Agent. The total revenue is Rs. i9,8oo, of which
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