28 Captain Postans on the Bilichi Tribes inhabiting Sindh, 
over, do not so completely merit the titles of murderers and 
robbers, which have not undeservedly been applied to hordes, 
who lived by plunder and relentless cruelty—at deadly feud 
with each, and the scourge of the cultivated and peopled 
country in their vicinity. Some of these tribes are again dis- 
tinct in this particular from those in the neighbourhood of 
Kelat, or the mountaineers. Two or three of the former, of 
whom the author had personal experience whilst in Sindh, 
deserve particular notice, as they afford examples of a reck- 
less bloodthirsty propensity, and irreclaimable love of a law- 
less life, which none of the other tribes so markedly possess. 
A strong proof of this was afforded in the deadly animosity 
they shewed to a clan claiming holy extraction, and therefore 
highly esteemed ; the Kyhiris, who styled themselves Sheikhs, 
but who were driven from their possessions, and treated with 
every imaginable cruelty by the tribes now to be mentioned, 
though with all others their sacred stock procured for them 
the highest respect, and they lived amongst them peaceably 
and were protected. These are the Diimkis, Jekranis, and 
Birdis ;—though thus mentioned together, it must not be 
concluded that they were partners in their vocation; on the 
contrary, the Bdrdis owned no connection with the other 
two, who offered almost a single instance of any two Bilachi 
tribes combining continually for a definite object, and that 
was plunder, effected often by the most violent and cruel 
means. The Diimkis and Jekranis inhabit the western bor- 
ders of Cutchi, at the foot of the hills, (commonly known as 
the Muru hills, from the tribe inhabiting them,) and sepa- 
rated from Sindh by a broad belt of complete desert. Cutchi, 
or as it is better known by its title of Cutch Gunderva, is 
that portion of territory extending from the desert to the 
point north and west of Shilialpi, where the inundations of 
the rivers cease to influence cultivation. to the mountains 
which separate the valley of the Indus from the higher coun- 
try of Bilachistan and Affghanistan. The partial fertility 
afforded by mountain streams on the western side of Cutchi, 
and the effects of rain in fair seasons, causes it to be held as 
the granary of the Brahie and higher Bilich country; but it 
is in various parts inhabited by the wildest of the Bilachi 
