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



Force. 



Place. 

 Gwasht, 

 Erifshan, 

 Molatan, 

 Deban, 

 Pasi-Koh, 

 Sohran, 



Headmen. 



Matehlockmen 



Mulla Mahomed, 



100 



Kadar Buksh, 





200 



Mulla Meer, 





400 



Badeen, 





100 



Khuda Buksh, 





200 



Baiee-on, 





200 



Saffer, who claims descent from the house of Saffareea. Next 

 Chief, in importance to him are Balooch Abder Ruman and Ba- 

 leeat. The cultivation of Sib is confined, and there are a few date 

 trees. The chief has two sons, Nadir Shah and Taimoor Shah. The 

 following are the places, tribes, chiefs and numbers that owe allegiance 

 to him : — 



Tribe. 

 Kuresh, 

 Erifshanees, 

 Molatan ees, 

 Debanees, 

 Burhanzais, 

 Sohranees, 



Mahommed Shah is held in great dread throughout Mukran, 

 Forays. and he has even carried his forays into the district of 

 Ketch. He collects no revenue from Sib itself, which is nearly all 

 his own hereditary estate. His revenue may amount to 

 5,000 maunds at 25 Company's maunds of grain,* 200 

 packages of dates, 125 maunds of juwaree, 80 maunds of cotton, 5,000 

 Mahommadee rupees of which gold and ducat,t and 1,000 sheep, and 

 2 J maunds of ghee. Besides these regular incomes, he forays to an ex- 

 tent, bringing home camels and prisoners, male and female, whom he 

 sells for slaves. The fort of Sib is 450 yards in circumference, built on 

 stony ground, and the citadel is an inner fort 120 yards; the height of 

 the outer fort or paseel walls 8 guz, that of the meeree 

 walls 25 guz. The meeree is full to half the height of the 

 walls, the thickness of the remaining part of which may be ^ guz. 



The people of Sib burn the baranshok grass, with which when 

 green, they feed their horses and asses, &c. 



On arriving at this place, Mahommed Shah was absent at Panjgoor, 

 on a visit to his son-in-law Mahommed Aly Khan. His 

 lady, a sister of Meer Maladad Gichkee of Panjgoor, whom 

 my father administered a charm to, when suffering from the small 

 pox, sent her nurse to me in the mehman khana, to apologise for her 

 not coming herself, as 40 days had not yet elapsed since her delivery. 



Reception. 



* Sic. in orig.—Eos. 



t Sic. in orig.— Eds. 



