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bear some mark of Alexander the Great, but snow fell at night, and 

 made me abandon the project. From Nahoo across the Jak-i-Lukman 

 to Gwasht is 10 kos, a place of 80 houses, well cultivated, and inhabit- 

 ed by people who call themselves Kuresh, and where there is said to 

 be a slab with inscription on it. Thence 10 kos over a difficult moun- 

 tainous road to a stage in the hills without habitations, and from 

 that 8 kos to Gwasth, the first village in the Surhad district, over an 

 easy road, infested by thieves of the Domanee and Bambaree tribes. 



3rd December. — Left Nahoo, and proceeded due South across the 

 Peel-i-Surut, a very narrow and extremely difficult Pass, there being 

 springs both at the North and South side of the mountain 10 kos to 

 Dezak. the village of Mulla Haroon in the district of Dezak, in 



which are situated seven villages ; viz. Shash-toonk, Tarjae, Reyyon, 

 Mulla Ahmed, Meer Gajion; and the village of Mulla Haroon, which 

 is the largest in Dezak. 



To the West of Dezak is Panjgoor, and to the South a mountain, 

 Boundaries. beyond which is Sib ; to the North is the mountain of 

 Puli-Surtat, which is the same as that of Sirjahan ; which beyond 

 Dezak, turns to the North towards Southern. 



The district is a fertile one, watered by karez, and the cotton pro- 

 duced here is famous throughout Mukran; it is of two 

 Brown Cotton. 



kinds, white and light brown. 

 The chief of the district is Meer Gajian, who claims descent from 

 M . . Shah Nyamutulla-i-Walee, his retainers are Domanees, and he 



Chief. 



is very popular in the district. When Abul Kasam invaded the 

 country in Futteh Ali Shah's time, he levied 5 rupees on each Han- 

 jan, or water-right of a day and night. Meer Gajion assesses the lands 

 at i" th of the produce, and of the date produce he realises about 

 150 Company's maunds, besides 250 maunds of juwaree, and 150 

 maunds of cotton. The principal men of Dezak, besides Mulla Haroon 



and Meer Gajian, are Khaleel Khan, Meer Rusheed, 



Principal Men. J * ' 



Meer Ameen Noorulla, and Mulla Ahmed. 

 The forts of Dezak are like those of Balochisthan, of little conse- 

 quence. There are at least 1,000 cotton weavers at this place, and 

 the fabrics are exported in all directions; while wool, goats' hair, 

 ghee and asafcetida are imported from Jushad. There are 100 

 Hindoo traders here, the principal of whom is an agent of Magon 



