694 Tour through parts of Baloochisthan, in QNo. 1 53. 



tutions, all of which questions I answered fully and to his satisfaction, 

 as well as to that of several bye-standers, who immediately proposed 

 taking service. They had heard of the occupation of the Island of 

 Khaig (Karrack) by the English, and wanted to know why they did 

 not come to Bumpoor, and from thence invade Kirman, as they them- 

 selves would be happy to enlist and join the expedition for a pecunia- 

 ry consideration, and begged me to tell the officers at Karrack so. 



23a? December Having procured a guide from Mahommed Shah, I 



left Sib, and proceeded 8 kos over a good level road in a N. W. direc- 

 Dolegeaban. t j on t0 Dolegeaban, a place containing a few goat-hair 

 tents of Balooches and one well, where already, a shower of rain fell, 

 and the weather was very cold. 



2ith December, — Proceeding 5 kos in the same direction over a 

 Pas-i Koh. g 00C i r0 ad, arrived at Pas-i-Koh, where I was lodged and 

 entertained by one Bejad, who had heard of the kind treatment I had 

 received from Mahommed Shah of Sib. These people do not at all 

 bear resemblance to Balochees, as they say themselves, they are origi- 

 nally from Shiraz. 



25th December. — Proceeded in a N. W. direction 10 kos over a 

 Damanees. good level road to a few huts of Damanees or skirters, 

 (daman, meaning skirt of a hill.) This night rain fell heavily, and after- 

 wards snow, which latter with cold piercing wind killed my camel. 

 26th December, — Proceeded still in the same direction 8 kos over a 

 Stage. § 00( * roac *> sometimes on foot and sometimes mounted on a 

 Hospitality, bullock that I had hired for 2 rupees from three miser- 

 able tents of Balochees, the inmates of which seemed hardly to have the 

 wherewithal to subsist on, and yet they immediately put their pot on 

 Paste, the fire, and commenced boiling a few handsful of flour for 

 me ; this I declined partaking of, pleading their extreme poverty as an 

 excuse, but really not feeling inclined to paste my inward man. They 

 then advised me not to go to Turbad where there were thieves, who 

 would certainly annoy me; if for nothing else, yet merely for my 

 being a Sunnee. 



27th December. — Travelled in a N. W. direction over a level road 



Gwash. Q kos to the village of Gwash, the first and principal one 



in the district of Sarbad, which is bounded on the East by Gwash ; 



on the West by Varmasheel; on the North by the village of 



