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Tour through parts of Baloochisthan, in [No. 153. 



ianufacture. 



capital than 8,000 rupees employed in trade ; a very rich man for 

 Panjgoor. 



At Panjgoor is manufactured a coarse cotton cloth of two different 

 breadths, both small, one called semor and the other chha- 

 mar. The weavers make comparatively little use of their 

 wool at home ; they merely manufacture felt rugs, as their fabric 

 for the hot weather resembles bunting. 



I bought some common shawls from Bombay, which I wanted 6 

 rupees Kashanee each for; the common remark made was, "Why 

 should not the English be a rich nation ? their merchants come 

 and buy a couple of hand-fulls of wool from us for a few needles 

 and gloves, work it into a fabric, and sell it to us for 6 and 7 rupees." 



Among the groceries exported from Bombay, the cloves and carda- 



mums are not eaten, but worn in strings round the necks 

 Cosmetics. . ° 



of the women, and form two of the ingredients of a certain 



cosmetic, that is very prevalent and fashionable in the country, on which 



a great deal of money is spent; they also are put in a kind of pomatum 



made of sheep's tail and fat, and colored with lemon leaf, with which 



they smear their hair. 



The following are the estimated yearly imports to Panjgoor: — 



Y 20 camel loads, j> From Kalat and Kochee. 



Coverlids, 

 Telee Cloth,. 

 Japan ditto, . 

 Cotton Plaid, 

 Lungee, 

 Soosee Cloth, 

 Chintz, 

 Madder, 10 

 Nor, .. 20 

 Lead, .. 2 

 Salt petre, 5 

 1 

 Coarse flowered Muslin, 

 Checked ditto, 

 Dimity and calico d 

 Silk Daryai and Mashroo, 100 pieces, 



Groceries 18 camel loads, 



Pedlery, I ditto ditto, 



Silk Thread, . . . . maunds, 



Handkerchiefs, .. .. 5 camel loads, 

 Pearl, Coral and Glass Beads, 500 rupees' 

 worth, 



camel loads, 

 ditto ditto, 

 ditto ditto, 

 ditto ditto, 

 ditto ditto, 



slin, \ 

 itto, J 



1 ditto ditto, 



From Bombay, via the 

 seaport of Gwadar. 



