788 Tour through parts of Baloochisthan, in [No. 154. 



night. I travelled in this kour for 3 stages, sometimes due South, at 

 Seereech. other times S. S. W., over a very difficult rivulet bed 

 winding between hills. On the fifth day, emerging from the kour ar- 

 rived at the port of Seereech, at which were a few huts of poor fisher- 

 men, who brought us some boiled fish. 



16th April. — Leaving Seereech proceeded over a level road, the 

 Gubreg. ground abounding with salt, to Gubreg, in a due west di- 

 rection ; here I spent the night in the khel of Meer Abdulla. It com- 

 ing on to rain, he insisted on my halving the one-roomed cabin with 

 himself and wife. One of my companions seeing the lady undress 

 before us all without the least punctilio, uttered some abuse in Pushto 

 of Balooch customs, which remark Meer Abdulla requested me to in- 

 terpret, which I did, by saying, my companion was merely praising 

 the unaffected hospitality of the Baloochees. 



\*Jth April. — Travelled over a level road due west to Jegeen, which 

 Jegeen. belonged to Meerza Aly, son of Meer Hajee of Jusk, who 

 entertained us with butter, curds and dates. 



18th April.-~Tie2Lche& over a fine level road in a S. W. direction 

 8 kos, and turning a promontory, turned in a N. W. direction, and to- 

 wards evening arrived near Jusk, and put up in the huts of a few 

 fishermen. 



19th April. — Two kos further brought us to Jusk, where we took 

 up our lodgings in the mosque. 



Jusk is bounded on the East by the river Seereech, beyond which 

 Boundaries. { 8 tne district of Gik ; on the West by Seereek ; on the 

 North by the Bashkurd mountains 4 kos distant ; on the South by the 

 sea. 



The following are the sea-port towns dependent on Jusk; Seereech, 

 Port Towns and Zabrey, and Jegeen. The districts are Bahmadee-zer-i- 

 District. koh, Koh-i- Mubarak, and Barezok Myan Khisht. 

 The cultivation of Jusk depends on the rain; it consists of wheat, 

 Cultivation, barley, millet, juwaree and cotton. The country be- 

 longs to Sazad Saeed, Imam of Muscat, whose resident deputy is Meer 

 Hajee, by tribe a Kooasee, or descendant of Kar Kaoosee. 

 The revenue may amount to 500 tomans, equal to 3000 Fransa 

 Revenue. r j a i Sj f wn i cn the Imaum receives 300 tomans, and 

 when there is rain, a tax is levied of £th of the produce, and may 



