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



I spent eight days at Jak with Meer Hajee, who during the whole 

 time importuned me for love-charms and specifics. The Hajees pro- 

 ceeded on their way to Baghdad, and the next day on some other 

 Hajees returning from the same place, I joined them, and started 

 for Gik, having refused the offer of Meer Hajee to enter his service, 

 and having excused myself from prosecuting my journey towards 

 Baghdad, on the plea, that it was too late in the season, and that I 

 had heard that the Persian Gulf was very unsafe, from the number of 

 British vessels cruizing there. 



28M April.-r-Proceeded in an Easterly direction 2 kos to Gik, and 8 

 Shah-i-non. kos further to Shah-i-non over a plain, halfway reached a 

 hot spring, in the neighborhood of which sulphur is situated ; but it was 

 found not worth working by a miner, that Sazad Saeed had sent to 

 examine it. There is a shorter hilly road from Jusk to Shah-i-non, 

 but without water at the latter place. We were treated to curds and 

 dates, and asked to pray for rain. 



29th April. — Proceeded 8 kos to Jignee over a level, road plain, 

 Jignee. where wood and grass are plentiful. At this place, a rivulet 

 from Bashkurd discharges itself into the sea, where it is called Kami 

 Bashkurd. 



30th April.— At 8 kos arrived at Gobreg over a good level road in 



Gobreg. an easterly direction, where there are plenty of date-trees and 



scattered huts. Here we were presented with a bed, the tithe of the 



flock, and the good woman of the house got up before dawn, and cooked 



a fowl for the next stage for us. 



1st May, — Proceeded 5 kos over a level road in an Easterly direc- 

 tion to the confines of Gobreg, where we stopt at a pool, and then con- 

 tinuing our journey, arrived towards the afternoon at Hulk-i-Khana; 

 Hulk-i-Khana. a collection of mat huts under date-trees. This was 

 the Hulk or village in which Meer Abdulla, my former acquaintance 

 lived, and he received me with the same hospitality as on the former 

 occasion. Just as it was getting night, the wife of my host awoke me, 

 having a bottle of warm water in her hand, and reminded me, that it 

 was time to perform my ablutions and say my morning prayers. I 

 was not long allowed to remain astonished at this mark of attention ; 

 as the lady taking me on one side, and remarking that I seemed a dis- 

 creet and modest young man, requested me to prescribe something 



