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ter to the amouut of two thousand adult males, but they are uofc 

 held in much estimation for their bravery, and are notorious 

 thieves, but exceedingly sly ones for Beluchis, indeed they may be 

 termed the ioxes of Ron. Their chiefs Jellal Khan and Jemal 

 Khan, who receive a pension from Government, or some money 

 allowance, which is just the same, not long since were all and every 

 thiug with the Local authority, but lately their power appears to 

 have been on the decline. They were engaged in the Multan 

 rebellion, and like the Multani Patans, who first fomented it and 

 made Diwan Mulraj their tool, were one of the mainstays of the 

 rebels, until they discovered that the Diwan's was the losing side. 

 The Lagharis, however, although they at last left Mulraj, connot bo 

 accused of treachery and falsehood, which appears exclusively an 

 accomplishment, or part of the nature I may say, of the Patans 

 of Multan, for the former did not desert to the enemy for the sake 

 of the loaves and fishes as the latter did. 



The Laghari tribe hold the Darrahs and passes of Widor, Suklu 

 Surwar, and Choti. The former is so called from the large village 

 of that name about sixteen miles west of Dera Ghazi Khan, and 

 eight or nine miles from the skirt of the first range of hills. It is 

 the principal village of the Laghari tribe, but the Widor pass itself 

 is within the bounds of the village of Beylah, of which Mirau 

 Laghari is the headman. Two hundred of the tribe cultivate lands 

 close to the entrance of this valley, which is itself held by the 

 Hudiani branch of the tribe, who, to the number of five hundred 

 families, are dispersed in small hamlets or awls between this 

 valley and those on the eastern side of the Black Range. The 

 Hudiauis are arrant robbers, extending their depredations both 

 to the property of the Afghans to the west of the mountains and 

 to the Derajat to the east ; all is fish that falleth within their net. 

 The valley contains some springs of pure water, which is also 

 abundant from this to the Afghan country. At the hamlet or awl of 

 Hudiani further up the valley, there are numerous Shishum trees. 

 The road through the pass is practicable for beasts of burthen as far 

 as the high range, but the defile leading over it is in the Khetrau 

 country, and is so narrow that one person can scarcely pass. 



South of Widor is the pass of Sukhi-Surwar, so called from the 



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