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



The price of a passage for a single individual to Muscat is 2 Ma- 

 Freight, hommadees, and the freight of a candy 2 Mahommadees; a 



passenger to Bombay or candy of goods, pays 1 kuroosh of rials. Kuser 



are not now exported to Bombay as they were formerly when they had 



cost 3 or 4 ducats each. 



The customs of Chabar may amount to 2,000 kuroosh. The import 

 Duties, duty on Hindoos is 4 per cent., and on Mussulmen 3 per 



cent. The duties levied on goods from the interior are farmed for 



150 rials, which is paid to Meer Abdee. From the fish maws and fins 



the Government exact 10, and the right of fishing is farmed for 45 rials. 

 The duties on matting is also farmed for 15 rials. At the port 

 Salt Tax. f Pava, there are salt pans ; duty (?) is levied on every 



boat according to the following scale: — 



Chabar boat, 3 Mahommadees. 



Gwadar ditto, ^ Rail. 



Arab ditto, 2 and 3 rials. 



The coins current are Mahommadee rials and Seetaramee ducats 



in the following proportions : — 



10 Mahommadees (sufed) in one silver rial. 



23 ditto ditto in one ducat. 



The copper currency is that of Bombay. I remained 10 days at 



Chabar. 



29th June. — Left Chabar, and proceeded 8 kos at first over a sandy 

 Tezcopau. so \\ f then over a descent, then to Kuchon and Mashek, 



where there is a well, and arrived at Tezcopan ; the direction of the 



road being N.E. and E.N.E. ; the whole road is a gun one, and the 



only difficulty is at the descent. 

 30/^ June. — Proceeded 8 kos immediately along the sea-coast over 

 Nigwar. a good road, having water on it, which is not used for 



cultivation, except the water of a well at Shahans-i- Nigwar. 



There heard of a gentleman who had ascended the neighbouring 

 Captain Grant. hill some years back, and discovered a silver mine, 



which he concealed from the inhabitants. Leaving the sea coast, I 



branched inward in a N.N.E. direction to a few huts of Jatgals. 

 1st July.— Travelled over a level road in a S. E. direction for 5 kos to 

 Gwatar. Gwatar; no water on the road for the last kos; the road 



turns to the E.S.E. 



