140 Account of a Journey from Kurrachee toHinglaj. [No. 98. 



shops, on longer of use. The number of shops do not exceed fif- 

 teen, in which grain and dates are sold. The weavers (of whom 

 there are not many) fabricate a few silks and coarse cotton cloths, 

 Manufactures, which find a sale here ; a common kind of carpet 

 called a "furraslr" is also made from goat and camel hair. 

 Indigo is imported in small quantities, and is used by the 

 dyers (there are only three) in colouring the clothes of the 

 male portion of the population. There are four mosques, and 

 Mosques and temples, six dhurumsallas and temples in the town and 

 neighbourhood. I was informed by the Afghan merchants that at 

 present the hire of a camel to Kelat was as high as twenty-five 

 rupees, owing to the great demand for them by our troops. Goods 

 to the amount of rupees six hundred, the property of one of them, 

 had a few days before been stolen from the ei Peer Kee jugah" 

 outside the town, where they usually halt. On representing his 

 case to the Dewan, he told me the thieves had been traced, 

 and that no exertions should be wanting on his part to re- 

 store it, and what the plunderers could not pay in kind, they 

 Payments made by pii- should in person. In the customs farmed by the 

 grims visiting Hingiaj. contra ctors the sum of rupees 2/2 taken from 

 each pilgrim, and some mendicants, who visit the temple at 

 Hingiaj should be noticed. Of this six annas belongs to 

 the Yam, part of the balance is divided by the town authorities, 

 and the remainder goes to the contractors. For it, protection is 

 supposed to be afforded them while in his territory, and as 

 a proof of it, one of the leaders of a party we met, mentionec 

 his having lost a u kottia," or drinking vessel, some years 

 before at the Aghor river, and on his preferring a complaint, 

 that it was searched for, and found in the hut of a Noomreea, 

 who was forced to return it, and had a valuable camel takei 

 from him as a punishment. I met several of the pilgrims whc 

 had lost articles of trifling value, and one, who was hea( 

 of his party, a few marches beyond Soumeanee was robbet 

 of his clothes and grain, but they felt confident if they saw thf 

 Dewan on their way back, that he would oblige the contractors 

 to pay their value. 



Fresh camels having been hired in the place of those 

 brought from Kurrachee, which do not thrive on the foragt 



