1844.] 1838 and 1839, by Hajee Abdun Nubee, of Kabul. 699 



the direction being sometimes W. N. W., and sometimes due 

 west. 



This district is bounded on the East by Pahiah ; on the West by 

 Bampoor. Miskaton ; on the N. N. W. by the hills of Bazman ; and on 

 the South by Sashar. 



The following were formerly the feudal dependencies of Bampoor: 

 Dependencies. Pahrah, Apsor, Bazman, Ispuka, Sashar, Miskotan, 

 Erindogan and Damind. The district is a flat and very fertile one, 

 producing wheat, barley and juwaree, and being watered from no less 

 than 96 small canals, the harvest of Kolwa equals this — the seed of 

 Bampoor, and the harvest of the latter place, only equals the seed 

 of Narniasher. The land is allowed to be fallow for about two years, 

 not so much on account of the poorness of the soil, as on account 

 Cultivation. f the extent of the land, and comparative scarcity of cul- 

 tivation. Both sugar-cane and indigo might, it appeared to me, be 

 Chief, introduced with great advantage. The chief of Bampoor is 

 Mahommed Ally Khan, son of Mehrab Khan-i-Lung, or the lame, by 

 tribe a Narsee, from Nare, their original district, which is situated to- 

 wards Seisthan. He has a force constantly kept up of 500 men of his 

 own tribe, and 80 slaves of his own purchasing. 



He collects his revenue at the rate of 300 Bampoor maunds per 

 Land tax. gooband, a space of land which takes 400 Bampoor maunds 

 to sow. 



I estimated that each small canal watered 6 goobands, and that 

 Principal Men. the Bampoor maund equalled the Company's seer. The 

 chiefs of Mahommed Ally's own tribe had lately quarrelled with 

 him, and had gone over to Prince Temz Mirza, to invite him 

 to invade Bampoor. The principal men are, Siparsala, Meer 

 Gazhee, son of Kamhae Zaburdust Navee. The allies of Mahom- 

 Allies. me d Ally, or Mahommed Shah of Sib, are his father-in-law, 

 Maddut Khan of Sarhad, Husen Khan of Aptar, Ibrahim Khan 

 of Pahiah, and Muheem Khan of Miskotan. His enemies are Sar- 

 Enemies, f eraz Khan of Gik, Ghulam Khan of Sashar, Deen Mahom- 

 med of Kaseband, Imcheem Khan of Ispaka, and the Raises of 

 Oodeean, who are his mother's brothers. Of the ninety-six 

 canals, eight are cultivated by the chief himself, and the rest by his 



tribe; from each cultivator, of which, at the harvest time, he requires 



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