CHAPTER II. 



Revemie System — Assessment on Crops — Forms of Collection — 

 Land Revenue in Government Territory — "Weights and Pleasures 

 — Currency — Balance of Caste in Khyrpoor Territory — Character 

 of the People — The Beloochees of Suidh — Want of Education — 

 Indifference to the Fine Arts — Hindoo and Mahomedan "Women — 

 Civil and Criminal Justice at Khyrpoor — Tortures — Instance of 

 Hote Singh's Barbarity — Police — Ordeal of Fire and "\Yater — Wife 

 Murder — Sale of Wives — Highway Robbery — Pastoral Tribes — 

 Camel Drivers of Siudh — Patriarchal Character of the Beloochees 

 — Bards and Minstrels — Khyrpoor Prima Donna — Professional 

 Dancers — Peers, Seyuds, &c. — Supposed Jewish Descent of Be- 

 loochees — Mcanis — Pulla Fishery. 



The revenue system which obtains in Khyr-^ 

 poor is that which formerly prevailed through- 

 out Sinclli, under the designation of Buttai, 

 being a division of the gross produce of the 

 land. This system is, I know, acceptable to 

 the cultivators themselves, though the British 

 officials are mostly very hostile thereto ; not all 

 so, however, as Major Stewart, collector of 

 Shikarpoor, an officer of first-rate experience in 

 revenue matters, would seem to be an excep- 



