478 Brief History of Kalat. [No. 138. 



Warnareesa, hamaneema raftam- Old fellow, this moment I went 

 Jargon. hamanja yak kad over there, there was a hollow 



e bood, aspia khuree kardam, azan- there. I spurred the horse, he 

 ja puthareed, paash ba kad-i- jumped over it, his foot got into 

 moosh daramad, ragh ash taleed, a mouse-hole, he sprained his 

 mantharak zadam, sheoshudam, nerve, I made a spring and came 

 naf-i-man taleed wa dil-i-man down. I sprained my navel, and 

 budeed. my heart got sick. 



These Dehwars are divided into five takars or clans. 



Tdo not conceive that Sewa had any government ; but rather that 

 Kalat was first built by him, and considered his estate. 



Tradition says, that Kalat passed into the hands of Persia from 



those of Sewa, and that the governor of the place 

 Georgians. 



was or Georgian extraction, who had a deputy at 



Khuzdar, and ruled over the clans, who were divided under separate 



Maliks and Arbabs. 



This governor, after some time, losing controul over his passions, 

 commenced a system of gross tyrannical debauchery, carrying off by 

 force the daughters of the peasantry, and this was carried to such an 

 extent, that the whole population was roused, and the heads of clans 

 determined to administer the remedy with their own hands. 



The deputy was much worse than his principal, as he not only 

 required their daughters, but an entertainment of halwah, (a blanc 

 mange,) which he had brought to him on a hill which is now called 

 Koh-i-halwah, where the governors of Khuzdar now go to hunt. 



The governor had for some time been in the habit of requiring 

 gratis, and daily, the services of 25 Dehwars to build the defences of 

 Kalat ; such was his fear of their revenge, that before admitting them 

 on the works, he had their persons searched to prevent their bringing 

 in weapons concealed about them. 



They were in the habit of baking bread of millet in large balls, 

 with a heated stone in the centre, to provide for a thorough baking, 

 called by the AtTghans kak, and it occurred to them that this might 

 be the means of their release, and the weapon of their vengeance. 



Next day they passed the guards without any suspicion being 



, . attached to their bread, and finding the tyrant in 



Revolution. ' & J 



a mid-day sleep, dispatched him ; the town was 





