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are borrowed from that language, 

 but greatly disguised under a cor- 

 rupt and unaccountable pronun- 

 ciation : the similarity of sound 

 is, however, so very striking, 

 that during my journey amongst 

 these people, 1 latterly understood, 

 from my knowledge of Persian, 

 almost every sentence that 1 heard 

 spoken in Beloochee. The Bra- 

 hoockee is, on the contrary, so 

 dissimilar in its sound and for- 

 mation, that I never recollect to 

 have remarked in it a single ex- 

 pression in any way approaching 

 the idiom of Persian. It contains 

 an extensive portion of ancient 

 Hinduwee words, a circumstance 

 which will be explained in the 

 historical account of this class, 

 and as it strikes the ear, bears a 

 strong resemblance to Punjaubee, 

 the dialect spoken in that part of 

 India called the Punjaub. 



The contour of the people of 

 these two classes is as tmlike in 

 most instances as their languages, 

 provided they be the descendants 

 of a regular succession of ances- 

 tors of either ; but the f recpient 

 intermarriages which take place 

 among ihem, have tended to such 

 a degree to blend together the 

 peculiar characteristics of both, 

 that in many families, and even 

 whole tribes, they have ceased to 

 exist; and, therefore, the off- 

 spring of such unions form a 

 third class, who may, jicrhaps, 

 often ditfer to a trilling extent in 

 a])pearancc, from their progeni- 

 tors, although they are incorpo- 

 rated into one or other of the 

 classes. 1 conceive it here ne- 

 cessary to state again, what I 

 hnvc d(me at the conmiencement 

 of this chapter, in order to pre- 

 vent confusion, that the aggre- 



gate population is exclusively 

 known by the name of Belooch.es, 

 which adheres to one of the two 

 classes it diverges into; but as 

 they must be considered separate- 

 ly, I shall henceforward always 

 distinguish each as Belooches or 

 Brahooes . 



The Belooches, from the most 

 accurate information I could ac- 

 quire on this perplexing subject, 

 branch, in the first instance, 

 from the original class of that 

 name, into three principal tribes, 

 called Nharooes, Rinds, and 

 Mughsees. The former, the Nha- 

 rooes, principally inhabit that 

 portion of Beloochistan which lies 

 to the westward of the desert, 

 and there are likewise Kheils, or 

 societies, of them at Nooshky, a 

 villa2:e north-west of Kelat, and 

 in Seistan : the other two tribes, 

 the Rinds and Mughsees, are 

 settled in Kutch Gundava, a low 

 country to the eastwaid, at the 

 base of the mountains, to which 

 fertile plain they have emigrated 

 at different periods, from the pro- 

 vince of Mukran, and have be- 

 come incorporated with the Jeths, 

 or cultivators of the soil, as the 

 subjects of the Khans of Kelat ; 

 a few of them likewise reside in 

 the hills to the north-eastward of 

 Kutch Gunda^■a, and on the skirts 

 of the degei t north of Kelat. 



THE NHAROOES. 



(From the same.) 



The Nharooes are commonly a 

 tall, handsome, active race of 

 men, not possessing great pliysical 

 strength, b\it adapted and inured 

 to changes of climate and season; 



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