Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.6

c11.6

Northward, in the dreary country around Larkana, the soil is so impregnated with salt that, drying in the summer heat that rises to 120° in the shade, it has a brittle shining crust that crushes beneath the step like a satanic mockery of snow. The whole landscape is whitened, and forms a dead background to the ugly stunted trees and grey-green bushes that stud the plain.