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and Gliuzni, they received a transit duty of about three shillings 

 for each loaded camel. At present they are very poor. 



Between the different valleys already enumerated and the Black 

 Range, as I shall in future call the Siiliman mountains, the 

 country is extremely broken, but occasional tupahs or plateaux 

 may be found which could be brought under cultivation with very 

 little trouble. A small number of Khasrauis, amounting to about 

 two hundred families, dwell between the most eastern valleys and 

 the Black Kange, on the highest and western slopes of which they 

 graze their flocks, and where they also devote some attention to 

 agriculture. They are, however, notorious robbers, and are in the 

 habit of coming down the valleys which run parallel to the Black 

 Mountains on the east, w T hich open out on the southern part of the 

 Dera Ismaaeil Khan district of Daman, and succeed in carrying off 

 cattle, often without being pursued, into their own fastnesses. 



The lands of the Esott Kakarrs commence about sixteen miles 

 from the Khasrani bounds, on the western slope of the Black 

 Range towards the north, w T hich in this direction is about twenty 

 or twenty-two miles broad from east to west. The .^Esa Khel 

 Kakarrs, to the amount of three thousand adult males, dwell to the 

 south-west of the Khasrauis. They are both cultivators and 

 shepherds, and possess numerous flocks ; and occasionally they 

 bring broad4ail sheep and goats into the Derajat for sale. They 

 are of the Luni tribe, and acknowledge Shikari Khan as their 

 Chief. The Khasranis are bounded on the south by the Bozdars, 

 w T ith whom they are on amicable terms. 



Mutkanis. 



The Mutkanis are wholly in the plains. They cultivate the 

 lands to the west of the Khasrauis and Bozdars, about Sanghar 

 and Mungrotah) and are a very quiet community containing about 

 eight or nine hundred adult males. Their nominal chief is Asad 

 Khan, but Musii Khan appears to exercise the greatest power 

 over them. 



BOZDAES. 



The next tribe to the south are the Bozdars, who are wholly in 

 the hills, which may account for their being arrant thieves and 



