806 Tour through parts of Baloochisthan } in [No. 154. 



\dth July. — Purchasing next day after my arrival mash and 

 some flour, started in an easterly direction 10 kos over a level road to 

 Oshaph, containing 10 huts. 



IJth Jm/j/.— Proceeded 10 kos through a rivulet bed to Parad, there 

 being water at one place on the road, and found the way free (?) from 

 Dahee, Mazab, and Afshan robbers. 



Parad has to the West Kasarkund ; to the East Ferozabad ; to the 

 North Sarboz, and to the South Bukwa. 



The following are the villages of Parad : Kosolokan, Duspulakan's 



Villages. Jameedar, Bafdnan, Petan Sahabad, Radban, Zyurutja, 

 Gunjabad, Hel and Balahan. The land is confined, and cultivated 

 with the Mukran grain. 



The chief is Mulla Meean Buledoi, who has no dependents; he de- 

 rives a revenue of 30 ducats and 10,000 maunds of grain. 



The principal men are, Meer Shahibi Kaoeen, Meer Abdullah 

 Rustam, Meer Omar Rajaee-i-Shahi, and Durra-i-Kerazai. 



The rate at which the revenue is levied varies from J to ^ and f , 

 and is so oppressive, that most of the cultivators have fled to Bukwa. 



The friend of the chief is Shah Den Mahommed of Kasarkund, 



Friends and Enemies. an( j hj s enemies, Bareean and Meer Ameen, and 

 Mahommed Shah of Sib. 



The fort is very small and insignificant. Twenty years ago a Persian 

 Fort. detachment levied 700 ducats from the place, by means 



Persians. f a g Un t hey had with them. 



A rivulet from Surbaz passes Parad. The distance to which place 

 is 14 kos; to Bampoor 6 days' journey in rivulets ; to Sib 5 days via 

 Sarbaz and Afshan, Erifshan and Narkand. During my seven days' 

 stay at Parad, I cured Mulla Meean of the rheumatism, in return for 

 which he offered me land, a wife, and the village of Parad, if I would 

 settle there. 



25th July. — On starting to-day was presented with a matchlock, 

 which I sold immediately for 1J ducat, preferring not to assume the 

 character of a soldier on my journey. Selling his present before his 

 eyes, so far from offending the old gentleman, was actually his own 

 proposal. During my stay here, it was my fortune to attend Mulla 

 Meean's daughter, who was really the prettiest girl I had seen in 

 Mukran; she was subject to fainting fits. 



