1844.] 1838 and 1839, by Hajee Abdun Nubee, of Kabul. 813 



There are 1000 weavers who make shooDg ashahar, soosee, lun- 



Bazar. g eeS} chadars, huftrong charuk ; 40 shoemakers, 15 black- 

 smiths, and 12 carpenters. There are no large merchants at Kech it- 

 self. The principal reside at Turbat, and are, Painda, a Mussulman, 

 and Hanjoo, a Hindoo, who each trade with a capital of 5000 rupees. 



On account of the exactions of the Kalat governor, most of the 

 traders reside at Turbat. 



Were it not for the extortions of the government, great profit might 

 be made at Kech. Several merchants have formerly enriched them- 

 selves here, of which one is now alive at Karaihar; and Edevell 

 Khan, known by the name of Moolla Keely, who used to remit his 

 money out of the country in sweetmeat jars, covering the ducats with 

 syrup. 



The following is the estimated consumption of Kech : madder 5 

 Consumption, candies, indigo 40 seers, chintz 1 load, silk 5 maunds, 

 mashroo 40 pieces, daryai 20 pieces, English cloth 1 camel load, powder 

 and lead 5 candies, kandakee 3 loads, pepper, &c. 5 candies, pedlery 

 500 rupees, saltfish 300 camel loads. 



The hire of a camel from Gwadar is 10 Mahommadees. From Kalat 

 10 rupees. 



The currency is in ducat3 and Mahommadees. The maund equals 

 10 Company's seers. Agents charge one half of the profits. 



Turbat is capable of great improvement, there being several karezes 

 out of order that might be advantageously repaired. 



At Turbat are (sects?) of Balochees, who have peculiar religious 

 tenets differing from those of the Koran. They call themselves 

 Mussulmans and " Zikarees." While other Mahomedans, they 

 call " Nirnazee" or " Peagars." They are called by the other 

 Mahomedans of Baloochistan, Daee Mazhabi, heresy believers. 

 They are supposed to be disciples of Hosainoodeen, called Peer Roshan 



Origin, by his own disciples, and Peer Tairuk by the Sunnee Maho- 

 medans, who propagated a new creed in the time of Akbar Padshah 

 with the greatest success in the district of Teerai, whence he was ex- 

 pelled by a popular commotion of the neighbouring Sunnee tribes, 

 aided by the governor of Cabool, and sought refuge and disciples with 

 success among the ignorant Baloochees of Mukran. 



