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the north and north-west, and took tracts of country from the former 

 inhabitants, whom I believe to have been Huzarahs. This latter tribe 

 it is true, is now only to be found far North of Ba- 

 lochisthan. But there is evidence of their being 

 once settled as far South as the district of Shawl, and this evidence 

 is furnished by the Takatoo mountain, the word Takatoo being com- 

 posed of taka, a wild goat, and too, answering in the Huzarah dialect 

 to the Persian dar, and Hindu wala ; and English er, as falcon, falco- 

 ner ; and kutchlak, caves. 



I believe the Brahoees to have gained northern Balochisthan from 

 the Huzarahs, and the southern part from the Nomryas, Jokyas and 

 Jaths. This latter tribe once held part of Mukran ; and I have more 

 than once been inclined to suppose, that the name had some connection 



with the country Gedrosia. There is besides a 

 Jaths. 



small stream near Cutchee, known by the name of 



Jathro at the present day, and a tribe called Jattakees, from their in- 

 habiting the Jattak hills in the Brahooick range. 



It was under Meer Kale Khan, I should think, and not under Meer 

 Ahmed, that the Brahoees were spread over the conquered country in 

 the following order : the Eltazais were given Baghbana ; the Meer- 

 wanees retained Mashkai and Kolwah; the Rodeenees and Gurgina- 

 dees were settled in the south, and the Ismailanees 

 in the north ; while the Kumbaranees were spread 

 over the country from Kech to Mustung, as their great numbers created 

 apprehensions of a revolution. 



As the power of Kale Khan increased, the Badechees of Shoro- 

 wak and the Panees of Siwee courted his alliance, 

 and it was during this ruler's government that 

 Akhund Mullah Mahommad arrived at Kalat, having fled from She- 

 raz. He was a man of great talent, and his prepossessing manners 

 and his foreign extraction, which rendered him free from local- 

 ties and interests, induced the Brahoees and their Khan to offer 

 him the office of wuzeer with the title of wakeel, as wuzeer was only 

 applicable to the prime minister of a king. The 



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descendants of this Mullah Mahomed say, that he 

 was by descent a Sayad, but dropt the title on gaining temporary 

 power. 



