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and dexterous exertion of the arm 

 and wrist, combined Avith the 

 most critical manag-ement of the 

 horse and spear at the same in- 

 stant. 



THE BKAIIOOE. 



(From the same.) 



'J'he Brahooe or second great 

 class of the natives of Beloochis- 

 tan now remains to be spoken of, 

 but as I have been obliged to 

 characterize it in most instances, 

 while contrasting the Bclooches 

 and that people, I have but a few 

 biief particulars to add regarding 

 them. They are, as the Beloo- 

 ches, divided into an indefinite 

 number of triljes and Kheils, and 

 are a still more unsettled wander- 

 ing nation, idways residing in one 

 part of the country during tlie 

 summer, and emigrating to an- 

 other for the winter season : tliey 

 likewise change their immediate 

 places of abode many times every 

 year in quest of pastuinge for 

 their flocks, a practice which is 

 rare uruongst the Belooches. In 

 activity, strength, and iiardiness 

 few people surpass the Brahoocs ; 

 they are alike inured to the cold 

 of the mountainous regions of 

 Beloochistan, and the heat of the 

 low plain of Kutch Gundava. 

 They differ so much froin the 

 Belooches in external appearance, 

 that it is impossible to mistake a 

 man of one class for a member of 

 the other. The Brahoocs, instead 

 of the tall figui'e, long visage, 

 and raised features of their fel- 

 low-countrymen, have short tiiick 

 bones, with round faces, and flat 

 lineaments j in fact, I may assert, 

 that 1 have not seen any other 

 Asiatics to whom they bear any 



resemblance, for numbers of them 

 have brown hair and beards. In 

 husbandry and other domestic oc- 

 cupations, they arc laborious liard 

 workers, and those vvho reside in 

 the vicinity of the plains to the 

 southward of Kelat, till large 

 ti'acts of land, and dispose of the 

 produce for exportation to the 

 Hindoos of Kelat, Bela, and 

 Khozdarj this and the sale of the 

 cheese and Ghee, made from the 

 flocks, with a few coarse blankets, 

 carpets, and felts, form the only 

 traffic tlie Brahooes enter into. 

 Their food is the same as the Be- 

 looches, except that they prefer 

 flesh-meat to every thing else, 

 and devour it in a half dressed 

 state, without bread, salt, or ve- 

 getables ; they are famous for 

 having most voracious appetites, 

 and thfir flocks of sheep and 

 goats, being very nimieiuus and 

 prolilic, enable them to indulge 

 their inclination for meat by con- 

 suminga greater quantity. They 

 affirm, perhaps witli truth, that 

 in the cold mountains which they 

 inhabit, it would be impossible to 

 sur\ive during the winter without 

 a certain portion of animal food, 

 which they deem not only nutri- 

 tious, but to have the same heat- 

 ing properties that are attiibuted 

 to spirituous liquors in Europe, 

 and to serve for this consumption 

 they accordingly cure a supply of 

 meat the latter end of Autumn, 

 by drying it in the sun and then 

 smoking it over a fire of green 

 wood : the meat thus prepared 

 has by no means a disagreeable 

 flavour, and its taste may be vei y 

 aptly compared to that of the 

 reindeer's tongues exported from 

 Russia ; it will keep for several 

 months, and when they store it 

 up for the cold weather, the only 

 precaution 



