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



a young man and his bullock, who had taken refuge beneath a 

 tree. 



8th May.— Proceeded 8 kos to Kourandap, or junction of rivulets, 

 Kourandap. ver a road partly in a rivulet. I stopped in a bed of the 

 rivulet that comes from Bint, Dehan and Punoch ; found no habita- 

 tions. From this, Bint and Dehan are 10 kos distant, the governor of 

 which former place is Meer Ahmed, deputed on the part of the go- 

 vernor of Gik, who has the supervision also of the Dasht ports. The 

 direction of this day's road was sometimes due North, and sometimes 

 N. N. E. 



9th May. — Travelled 8 kos over a difficult road to Chokan, a place 

 Chokan. with twenty huts among date trees, and supplied with run- 

 ning water. 



10th May. — After JO kos march in an Easterly direction arrived at 

 Muht over a difficult hilly road, containing thirty huts. In the 

 neighbouring hills flint glass, specimen No. 4, is procured. As 

 I was about going to sleep, news arrived that Mahommed Aly Khan of 

 Bampoor, had made a descent on Sashar, killing, wounding, and taking 

 prisoners 150 of the inhabitants, 50 of whom he sacrificed to his father's 

 manes. The chief of Sashar, Gholam Shah, and the inhabitants of 

 Ispoka, having fled to Gik. 



1 \th May. — Discovered on waking, that I had been spoiled and put 

 off my guard, by the honesty of the Dashters ; for my ass had been, 

 through my carelessness, stolen during the night. Hiring another one 

 to Gik, for 1 Mahummodee, arrived after an 8 kos march at Gik, and put 

 up as usual in the mosque, the akhund of which proved to be a Saiyed 

 formerly of Candahar, who received me kindly and entertained me. 



\2th May.— Went this day to complain of the theft of my ass to 



Chief, the chief, Surfraz Khan, whom I found quite a youth, and 

 offered me a safe place to put my goods in, and explained that his un- 

 cle had gone towards Chanbar on a foray, and no doubt would bring 

 some asses back with him, one of which I should have in lieu of my 

 lost one. On sending for my baggage, a crowd collected round the 

 English sword and iron scabbard, which I brought away with me on 

 the night of my escape from the Rodbaree, and many questions were 

 asked, what right I, as a Hajee, had to such an article. On explaining, 

 that I was once a soldier, they mentioned that an English gentle- 



