60 Descriptive notice of the District of Jhilum. [Jan. 



padas reside at Kotsarang in the Tulla district, and profess to have 

 been settled there for some time. The whole of the sect meet however 

 at the Phalgun festival on the summit of Mt. Tillah. 



The district of Jabbi Resh lies on either side of the river Suan 

 the Suanus of antiquity, a part of the district of Pakar Namal inter- 

 vening between it and Tulla-ganj. 



Jabbi may be called the boundary of the Panjabi race, the 

 country beyond being solely inhabited by Pathans, speaking Pushtoo, 

 and calling their neighbours the people of Hind, in contradistinction 

 to themselves. Jabbi was a Jageer of Sirdar Gunda Singh Mattu, 

 from whom it lapsed to the government in 1904. The villages on the 

 farther side of the river, border on the hills of Nurra with the inha- 

 bitants of which the Jabbi men have been at constant feud. The 

 Nurra people are a soldier-like race, good marksmen, and possessing 

 good horses, and have made themselves a thorn in the side of the 

 Panjabis. Their little domain is wild and very inaccessible, but is 

 capable of being well cultivated. Similar to Nurra is the tract called 

 Shaikel in the fork made by the junction of the Suan with the Attock, 

 the inhabitants of which have a bad character ; they were in the habit 

 of plundering travellers on their road to Mukhad, and escaping to the 

 hills. Shaikel contains three small tuppehs, viz. Kazzii, Gulbegi and 

 Alikhan, each of which is subdivided into several small hamlets. 

 Each plough pays 1-5 on the spring, and 8 annas on the autumn crop 

 to Mallik Alliyar Khan of Kalabagh. The Wans Suan villages of 

 the Jabbi district have recently been transferred to Rawalpindi. 



The gold found in the Suan river is of good quality, being of a rich 

 yellow colour, whereas that of the Indus is of a pale dirty colour, and 

 is called by the natives * sufed.' The total number of druns worked 

 is 60, producing a revenue of 140 yearly. The zemindars of Jabbi 

 are Awans and turbulent, opposite to the village of Nikki on the other 

 side of the Attock is the dark peak of Dinghot, where some old ruins 

 exist, and the headmen of Kalabagh, Mukhad and other places pro- 

 fess to be of Dinghot descent. 



The district of Pakar Namal is of great extent, bordering on Tulla- 

 ganj on E. ; the Attock on W. ; the Jabbi district on N. ; and the salt 

 range on S. It contains some very large villages, such as Namal 

 assessed at 8,500 ; but they are few in number, and present a singular 



