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himself from the increase of the trade, were pointed out in a favorable 

 manner. All the merchants of Lus are of opinion, that the commerce 

 would be considerably enlarged if security were afforded to the trader, 

 and of this there can be little doubt, for cloth and other articles of 

 European manufacture are in great request throughout Beloochistan, 

 and the supply is not at present adequate to the demand. 



Formerly the commerce of Lus was much more valuable than it is 

 at present, and a large portion was sent by the Kelat route to the 

 northern provinces of Hindoostan ; within the last forty years it has 

 from various causes gradually declined. In 1808 Soonmemy was 

 taken, and plundered by the Joasmy pirates, and for some years the 

 merchants were afraid to send goods there; the port was just beginning 

 to recover from this blow, when the Ameers of Sinde issued strict 

 orders to the merchants of Kurachee to discontinue their practice of 

 importing goods to any of the ports of Lus under the severest penalties, 

 and this measure, which at once took away half the trade of the 

 place, completed what the pirates had begun. In the meantime the 

 trade with the northern provinces had ceased entirely, for they had 

 become so unsettled that thePatan merchants, who are the great carriers 

 in that part of the world, ceased to come to Kelat for goods, and as 

 they afterwards found the route from Upper Sinde much the safest, 

 they resorted to it in preference, and have since obtained the small 

 supply of goods they require from the merchants of that kingdom. 

 Before the trade of Lus had suffered from the causes above mentioned, 

 its value is said to have been five times greater than it is at present, 

 and it was also much more lucrative to the merchant, for at that 

 period goods of European manufacture sold for double the price that is 

 now obtained for them. 



T. G. CARLOSS, 

 1^ February, 1838. Lieutenant, Indian Navy, 



Art. III. — On three new species of Musk (Moschus) inhabiting the 

 Hemalayan districts. 



To the Editor of the Journal, Asiatic Society. 

 Sir, — Several years ago I called the attention of Dr. Abel to some 

 remarkable, and apparently permanent distinctions of colour character- 

 ising the Musks, or Musk Deer of the Cis and Trans Hemalayan regi- 

 ons. These I subsequently inserted in my amended catalogue of 

 Mammalia, under the specific names of Leucogaster, Chrysogaster, and 

 Saturates, but without giving specific characters, owing to my conti- 



