38 Report on Upper Sindh, [No. 133. 



Thirteen Subdivisions. 



1. Meerozye, (Chief.) 8. Kurkkorie, 



2. Muhamedanee, 9. Talanee, 



3. Brahimanee, 10. Loondh, 



4. Baghdar, 11. Seenghanee, 



5. Shubkhar, 12. Guzyanee, 



6. Deenaree, 13. Wuzeranee. 



7- Gongee, 



No. 11. 



This tribe of Beloochees is considered to be the most numerous 

 and powerful of any below the Bolan Pass. They 



Murrie Belooches. . . ' . 



inhabit the northern portion of the range of hills 

 bordering Cutchee to the West and North, called after the two 

 tribes, " the Murree and Boogtie hills," though a spur of the Sullimani 

 range. The Murrees are essentially predatory and warlike; their 

 depredations extending to Bagh, Gundava, and the whole of Cutchee, 

 with the Bolan Pass, and Hummund and Dajel in the Seikh terri- 

 tories. The Murree chief, Dodah Khan, has his stronghold at 

 Kahan, a respectably sized fort, situated in a well watered plain, of 

 about six miles in its greatest extent, and exceedingly productive; 

 particularly in wheat. Kahan is distant about sixty miles in a 

 North-westerly direction from Phoolajee, passing through defiles, and 

 therefore much exposed to annoyance from an enemy. Kahan is 

 the only fortified place which the Murrees possess in the hills; but 

 there are other strong positions well supplied with forage and water, 

 to which they betake themselves when driven from the fort. The 

 Murree country is well supplied with running streams, and its villages 

 are exceedingly productive. The climate, in consequence of its eleva- 

 tion, is much milder than that of the plains, the thermometer averag- 

 ing for the month of June 1840, the maximum 97°, and at 8 p. m. 

 85°;* rain is of frequent occurrence; roads pass through the Murree 

 country to Hummund, Dajel, Rozan, Dera Ghazee Khan, and 

 Mooltan, and are traversed by merchants, bringing goods from thence 

 to Cutchee, Gundava, Bagh, and other places, in that direction, on 

 which black mail was of course levied. The Murrees, like other hill 



* At Lehree and Phoolajee in the plains, the thermometer during the same month 

 stood at 120° in a tent. 



