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



The Balochees have a great prejudice to travelling. It is a common 

 thing to hear a mother wish a wayward son a journey to Kabul ; even 

 the pilgrimage to Makka is regarded with a feeling of shame, some- 

 thing approaching to that of being obliged to beg ; and the Baloch pil- 

 grim is much commisserated, and perhaps not a little despised, for fore- 

 going the pleasures of love-making and fighting, promjnent character- 

 istics of the innate disposition of a true Baloch. 



The Baloch of Panjgoor differs in the pronunciation from the Ba- 

 Language. lochky of Scindh. The former having the letter s for th, 

 as the Panjgoorees call a mother mas instead of math. They also change 

 the kh into k; their dates they call koorma instead khoorma, and a 

 teacher ahmed instead of akhund. They moreover substitute g for 

 gh, as they call a razor istarag and not istaragh. They also change 

 kh into k } as they call an uncle nako and not nakho. 



Illness detained me at Panjgoor for nearly a month and a half, and 

 my resolution was nearly failing me. Indeed had I not accepted the 

 small advance of money from Major Leech at Kalat, nothing would 

 have induced me to prosecute my journey. The people of Panjgoor, 

 moreover, tried to alarm me, by their sketch of the character of the 

 chief of Koohag, which place I had been instructed to visit. How- 

 ever, I procured a letter of introduction from Meer Ghulam Hussein 

 Kamburanee, and hiring two matchlock-men, set out. 



10th November, 1838. — Travelled in a westerly direction 8 kos, 

 Bunsang. over a good level road to Bunsang, where I found 

 water, wood and fodder for the camels, but no habitations ; and next 

 morning starting at day-light, and proceeding in a W. N. W. direc- 

 tion over a tolerable good road 9 kos, arrived at Askan Koh, or Deer 

 Askan Koh. Mountain, a place without habitations, having crossed 

 the Askan Kour, or Deer Rivulet. 



12th November. — Eight kos over bad road in a W. N. W. direction, 



Mashkad. brought me to the other side of the Kour, or river Mash- 

 kad, into which six streams are said to discharge themselves. Sudden 

 swells are so frequent, that it has received the appellation of " Suwas 

 Bondi Zantalah, implying, that the man deserved to be a cuckold who 

 should be so foolish as to stop in the least, even to tie his shoe. 



I3lh November. — Four kos over a difficult road in a N. W. by W. 

 Koohag. direction, brought me to Koohag, which I approached 



