1844 ] 1838 and 1839, by Hajee Abdun Nubee of Kabul 801 



Gwatar is situated between the port of Chabar on the West, and the 

 Boundaries. p 0r t of Gwatar on the East ; and has the district of 

 Bakwa on the North ; the chiefs of which are Meer Gul Mahommed and 

 Sushkaran Jatgal. The cultivation, which depends on the rain, con- 

 sists of cotton, millet, juwaree, mash and peas. 



The amounts of revenue in ready money is 10,000 Mahommadees ; 

 that in kind at the rate of l-10th, depends on the rain. 



The fort belongs to Meer Sushkaran. The proceeds of the port 

 amount to 130 rials. 



Two Mahommadees the package is levied on mash of peas exported 



Freight and Duties, to Muscat, 2 rupees on every slave from Muscat, and 

 \ rial on a dubber of ghee exported to it, the freight of a candy to which 

 place is 4 Mahommadees, and of a dubber of ghee 2 Mahommadees.* 



There is only one shop here, every thing being brought from Chabar. 

 The fishermen pay l-10th of the proceeds of their fisheries. The 

 produce of the place is fish maws and fins. 



2nd July,— Proceeded 10 kos to the port of Jeewaree, over a good 

 level road without water, passing on the road the Darahoon hill and 

 the Nihong kour, or " whole river;" the direction of this road varies 

 from E. to E.N.E. 



The port is a small one, having only 15 huts of people, who style 

 Boundaries, themselves Shahzadahs or Princes, situated between port 

 Gwatar on the West and port Gwadar on the East, and having to 

 the North the district of Dasht. 



The principal person at the port is Mahommed. The land is exten- 



Chief. give, but the water as well as inhabitants are scarce. 



This port was one of the principal on the Mukran Coast, but was 

 desolated in favor of Gwadar, owing to the tyranny and extortions of 

 the governor of Kesh. Its situation is much preferable to that of 

 Gwadar. 



3rd July. — Proceeded 9 kos in an Easterly direction to the port of 

 Peesheekan. Gwadar over a level road, passing the Kour-i-Peesheekan, 

 and several huts of Balochees. Sometime back on this river swell- 

 ing, it brought downf containing old coins, which was found by a 



* Obscure passage, owing to detective MS. — Eds. 

 f Illegible in MS,— Eos. 



