668 Tour through parts of Bahochisthan, in [_No, 153. 



This seemed a favourable opportunity, and one not likely again to 

 present itself before my departure for Shikarpore, which was then fast 

 approaching, for obtaining information of Mukran and of the surround- 

 ing parts of Baloochistan ; and as the Hajee informed me he had before 

 been in the service of Europeans, I proposed to him that he should 

 undertake this tour, promising him on its completion, the approval of 

 the * Sarkar Company Bahadoor," and some compensation for the loss 

 incident on the temporary abandonment of his mercantile pursuits. 



On the Hajee accepting these terms, and after I had with the 

 greatest difficulty induced him to receive a small sum of money to 

 meet his expences, I furnished him with a passport in English, never 

 to be produced except in situations of imminent peril ; taught him the 

 points of the compass ; gave him his instructions which he fulfilled to 

 the letter, and dismissed him with strict injunctions never to be seen 

 near my encampment, or in communication with my people during the 

 remainder of my stay at Kalat. 



' On receiving my instructions and leave from Major Leech, I lost 

 Preparations, no time in disposing of the remainder of my Bombay in- 

 vestment to the best advantage, and laying in a fresh one adapted to 

 the Mukran markets. The Bombay articles besides kariona (grocery,) 

 and pingee (pedlery,) were the following cloths: jamdanee (coarse 

 flowered muslin,) kamdonee (coarse muslin with colored flowers,) mal- 

 mal (plain muslin,) gimty (dimity,) Korasan unbleached calico, shabee 

 duryai or konawez (strong silk fabric of Yezd,) mushroo (coarse satin 

 of Karachee.) 



The only article remaining on my hands after disposing of the 

 above was haldee (turmeric,) this I took with me to Mastung and 

 bartering it for rodan (madder,) returned to Kalat, and there com- 

 pleted my investment with the following fabrics, which are articles 

 of import to Kalat from Shikarpore, suparee (the common coarse cotton 

 cloth of Sindh bleached and dyed with bakam woods,) telee (the 

 common coarse cotton cloth of Sindh unbleached and dyed in madder,) 

 cheent (coarse Shikarpoor chintz,) Shikarpore toosee (coarse cotton 

 cloth of dark blue color with a white stripe,) Multan lungee (coarse 

 thin dark blue cotton fabric with silk edge and ends,) kesh of Sindh 

 (coarse cotton plaid,) and lyaf of Sindh (colored coverlid.) 



