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The rupee current is the Kashanee rupee, the Seetaramee ducat, 

 and the Mahommedee rupee. The latter in accounts is reckoned as 

 £ of Kashanee and \ of it is called Shaithan, which latter they have no 

 lower fraction. 



They measure nothing, every thing is sold by weight; 1 Panjgoor 



Weight. maund, 2 Company's seers, and a fraction ; 24 kejas 1 

 maund, and the keja weighs 8 Kashanee rupees. 



A merchant, sending an agent to Panjgoor, fixes the amount of 



capital which he is to trade with, and the agent re- 

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ceives half the profits ; but should the agent himself require 



an addition to the original amount,, the merchant charges him interest 



for the same, and deducts the amount from his half share of the profits. 



The merchants from the sea ports seldom receive ready money for 



their articles, but cloths or gudh of the kinds sermar and 



chaimar, manufactured at Panjgoor, generally at the rate 



of 20 cubits the rupee ; with this and ducats, wool in large quantities 



is alone purchasable. 



The hire of a camel from Gwadar is one Seetaramee ducat. 



The peculiarities in the appearance of the people of Panjgoor are, 



.... that the men seldom gird their loins or wear a turban, 



Peculiarities ° 



in appearance, but a bag cap ; and the women divide their hair into 



two horns, which they stiffen with gum. 

 The Panjgoorees have peculiar habits ; for instance in summer, they 

 Habits s ^ ee P 9 u i te na ked, having thick curtains round their beds 

 as a double preventative against musquitoes and heat ; and 

 when they feel unwell, they are very anxious to procure raisins or apri- 

 cot kernels, which latter they consider a specific even in cases of dim- 

 ness of sight. 



There is a common custom, when a boy is circumcised, for his father 

 to proclaim to the assembled guests some grant of land or 



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chattels, instead of bequeathing it to him at his death ; and 



before a boy puts on his wedding clothes, he is taken without the vil- 

 lage, and washed with soap in public, for the satisfaction of the bride's 

 relations, with cold water even in the middle of winter. 



A Balochanee will not give her daughter to an Affghan, for fear of her 

 „ . ,. heart breaking under the strict, decorous seclusion in which 



Prejudice. 



she would be obliged to live, and the girl herself would 

 hold in detestation a shaven- headed youth, without a couple of long 

 locks for her to comb and oil. The Balochee also objects to eat horse- 

 flesh. 



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