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the order of Hingulaj, a large string of small clay beads, which are to 

 be purchased at Thattah. 



Besides these two shrines, the following verse serves as a guide to 

 Other Pilgrimages. Hindoo pilgrims in Balochisthan : — 



" At Kalat you may see Kalee ; 

 And at Mustung, Mahadave; 

 At Shal is the old Jogee; 

 Panee-nath's grave." 



No tradition is preserved of the march of Alexander the Great 



through Balochisthan, with the exception perhaps 

 Alexander the Great. „ . ,,,„,.*, 



of a mountain pass near Sarhad, called Lak-i-Luk- 



man; Lukman being a fabulous philosopher whom Alexander re- 

 leased from a well in Baghdad, where he had been for forty years 

 confined by enchantment. 



At the same time, I believe that Alexander the Great is not con- 

 nected in the minds of the inhabitants with the legend ; but that re- 

 garding the work of cutting a pass through a mountain as one requiring 

 great science, and knowing it to be a work of antiquity, they have 

 given the credit of it to one of the only two scientific men of old 

 known to them ; viz. Lukman, the other being Plato. 



The inhabitants of the coast of Mukran also know, by tradition, 

 that an army was formerly reduced to great straits in taking the coast 

 route from want of water and provisions. 



Bampoor, (originally I have no doubt Bramhpoor,) must always have 

 been, if not the capital of Western Balochisthan, 

 at least one of the chief towns, from its fine na- 

 tural supply of water. 



In forming conjectures on the derivation of the word Mukran, 

 it struck me as singular, that the word in Hindoo 

 looked like the word Kirman ; the letters changing 

 places ; as in the words chik-al and kick-al, mud. 



I have heard of a rather ingenious derivation proposed in Mahee 

 Khoran (fish eaters,) or michran. The Scindians are at the present 

 day called in derision fish eaters. Nearchus says, that the Icthyophagi 

 believed themselves to be descended from a race who had been once 

 transformed into fish or sea monsters. If this tradition was then in 



