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and exclaim, " Ah what a heavenly halo." The rabaiee dates liter. 

 ally mean "godlike" and the sabzo are called " Protect like." They 

 have even verses in praise of this fruit. 



The manner of fecundating the female date trees as given by Pottin- 

 ger, is quite correct, with the exception of one point, i. e. no incision is 

 made in the core of the female tree, but a stalk of the male bunch is 

 inserted with its powder in the half-opened bud of the female, which 

 is then hid up for four or five days; the male flower does not lose its 

 qualities by being kept 4 or 5 days after being cut. The Balochees 

 cut the fresh male bud with the last year's dates. 



The trees are climbed with a strong stiff wisp of flags, tied to the 

 climber's waist and the tree. 



Dates are chiefly exported in two states; 1st, khurma, or dates ripen- 

 ed on the tree; 2d, chuwara, or dates plucked when beginning to 

 ripen, boiled and dried in the sun, chiefly of the kinds kaloot, sabzo, 

 and mazawatee. Half ripe dates called darupruch, especially of 

 the kinds doudaree, sabzo and washkouk are much esteemed for 

 immediate use; they are sometimes cut in halves and exported in 

 strings. 



The natives build with the date stem, and use it as well as the 



Wood. dried mat flag or persh, as firewood. The higher classes 

 we ings. j. ye - n mu( j ^oases, an( j tne p 0orer j n hius of trellis- work 

 covered with mat flags. 



This year was one of great scarcity, and the Hindoos sent for their 

 Scarcity. g ra in from Gwadaran, unheard-of reversion of things like 

 sending carraway seeds to Kirman. 



Besides 25 small Hindoo resident traders, there are 20 blacksmiths, 

 12 carpenters, 10 shoe-makers, 7 goldsmiths, 4 hut makers, 



Artizans. 



and 500 weavers. Kalat merchants come at the autumn 

 harvest to purchase dates, bringing with them the articles exported 

 from Shikarpoor, while the merchants from Beloo bring Kashanee 



rupees, and those from the bundur of Gwadar come at the 



Merchants. 



summer harvest to purchase ghee and wool for the Bom- 

 bay market, and bring with them Seetaranee ducats and Bombay gro- 

 ceries and cloths. The largest merchant of Panjgoor is Rahmoo, an 

 agent of Mayan Bhattya, son of Moola Keechee; and has not a larger 



