40 Report on Upper Sindh, [Nd. 133. 



2. Of the preceding tribes, the Khosahs, Juthooes, Jumallees, and 

 Boordies, are subjects of the Sindh Government; but the tribes in- 

 habiting the country northward of the Brushoree Desert, were until 

 the late establishment of H. M. Shah Shoojah's authority, tributary 

 to the Khan of Khelat. 



The Doomkies and Jekranee3, formerly the most lawless and pre- 

 datory of the tribes inhabiting the plains, are now peaceably settled 

 as cultivators, many of them being enlisted for police duties in 

 Northern Cutchee, whilst the lands which they usurped from the 

 Kyberrie tribe, have been returned to their lawful owners, and others 

 assigned for the subsistence of the two tribes alluded to. 



3. The cultivating classes of Beloochees and Sindhees, such as the 

 Khosahs and Jutts, were constantly exposed to harassing forays, and 

 thus the former, finding no security for life or property, left the tracts 

 of country which they formerly cultivated in Northern Cutchee, and 

 confined themselves to this side of the Desert. A better system of 

 things, has, however, induced many of the Khosahs to return to 

 Lehree, and the neighbourhood of Shapore. 



4. The Beloochees, as seen in Upper Sindh and Northern Cutchee, 

 are a large muscular race, particularly the hill tribes of Murrees 

 and Boogties. Their features are large, and decidedly Jewish, while 

 the custom of allowing the hair to grow to a considerable length, 

 depending over the shoulders and falling wildly on the forehead, 

 (a very uncommon habit among Mohammedans,) imparts to the 

 Beloochee's countenance, a remarkably ferocious expression. 



5. The Beloochees, who may be considered as foreigners in Sindh, 

 possess an unwritten dialect peculiar to themselves, apparently mixed 

 up considerably with both Pushtoo and Persian. 



6. The character given by the neighbouring people to the Beloo- 

 chees, is proverbially bad,* and there is every reason to believe it 

 to be not unmerited. The predatory habits of the Beloochee, seem 

 not to have been forced upon him by circumstances of necessity, 



* The term Beloochee, or as it is spelt in the language of the country Baloche, is 

 thus analyzed: — 



B. bud, bad, 



C. lubee, covetous, (Sindee. ) 

 W. wild, unsettled. 

 Ch. chor, a robber. 



