318 An account of the early Ghiljdees. [No. 160. 



day cannot be imagined. Near the above-mentioned shrine is a spring, 

 which it is said cannot be fathomed. Its water is efficaciously used in 

 cases of Suj ah- Sulfa (black cough) in children, which either lasts two 

 months or forty days, from which no child is exempt. 



I have mentioned before, that the Khaleels and Momands held the 

 country before the Hazarahs. I remember one day on the Arghandah 

 asking a Tokhee chief, what a stone and mud pillar on a neighbouring 

 eminence was for ? It was built, said he, long before our time ; it is some 

 boundary mark of the Khaleels and Momands. In my journal under 

 date 22nd January 1842, I find the following memorandum : 



Shekh Mate-khaleel had (the Khalak people say) four sons and one 

 daughter ; Shah-i-Mardan, Kalat, Garmam, Hasan, and a daughter Jukh- 

 taran, who all on being buried sent forth springs of water from their 

 respective graves of the same quality, which retains its temperature 

 during winter, (it may then be seen running smoking down the hill.) 

 The graves are all in the neighbourhood ; — Jukhtaran, a small mound 

 east of Kalat, just across the Tarnak Hasan-i-Mate, above the village of 

 Khalak ; Garmam, (they deny the wordneing Garmah) west of Kalat ; and 

 Shah-i-Mardan, south of Kalat, a small flat-topped hill like the one over 

 Khalak called Tabaksar. They say that Shah-i-Mardan outlived his 

 brothers and sister, and boasted that as they had made streams of water, 

 he on his death would make a river. On account of this vanity and 

 presumption, the stream from his grave is the smallest of all, only sup- 

 plying drinking water. 



In Dara's translation of Nyamatullah's history of the Afghans, Part II, 

 page 19, Chapter XX., Shekh Mati-khaleel is mentioned as chief of twelve 

 Sarbanni clans. Hasan-i-Mate lived, we may suppose, in the time of 

 Zeerak, the great grandson of Abdul, and in the time of Nahmand the 

 great grandson of Ghiljye, and the fort of Kalat was of course never 

 fortified before the spring on the top of the hill burst out ; and it may be 

 assumed, that it was first fortified by some royal hand, as the surround- 

 ing tribes would never have allowed one branch to occupy such a 

 commanding position. 



I never succeeded in satisfactorily ascertaining whether Shah-i-Safa 

 or Kalat was the oldest. The former is said to have got its name from 

 some sick monarch, who then experienced " Shafa" (recovery) from his 

 disease. I have heard it called by some the capital of the country once 



