1857.] Account of the Lower D era] at. 205 



stony in many places, and uninhabited as far as the southern slopes 

 of the Black Range, to the north of which the Murris are bounded 

 by the Kakarr and Luni Afghans ; and westward towards Dadur at 

 the entrance of the Bolan pass. They are bounded on the north 

 by the Khetrans, and Lagharis, and south by the Bughtis and 

 Bralmis. Their chief town is Kahun already referred to. 



The Murris are a powerful tribe, and their present chief Din 

 Muhammad Khan, can bring 3,000 of his clansmen into the field at 

 any time, about one-third of whom are well mounted on the hardy 

 horses of the country. They make occasional raids into the Mit- 

 tunkot district, but in very small numbers, although as I have 

 before remarked, merely restrained from undertaking greater ex- 

 peditions in the same direction by the inhospitable nature of 

 the country, where water is exceedingly scarce and only procu- 

 rable even in moderate quantities at certain places, and where food, 

 both for man and beast, has to be carried with them. 



Bughtis. 



The last tribe remaining to be noticed as appertaining to this 

 imperfect sketch of Eoh and its people, are the Bughtis, robbers 

 more notorious even than their neighbours the Brahuis. They 

 acknowledge Islam Khan and Daria Khan as their chiefs, the latter, 

 however, has but little power. Although the Bughtis have been 

 much broken up by Sindh policy, and a large number to the amount 

 of about 12,000 have been settled in and around Larkhanah in that 

 province, yet they still can bring together, in case of necessity, 

 some 4,000 adult males. They pay little or no attention to hus- 

 bandry, and mainly depend on plunder for subsistence. Within 

 the last few years two hundred families of the tribe under Daria 

 Khan the partner in the chieftainship, have joined the Murris. 



When Lieutenant E. Young of the Bengal Engineers, who was 

 employed in a civil capacity before the annexation of the Paujab, 

 went into the Lower Derajat in 1849, to settle the lands of the 

 Drishaks and other tribes, three hnndred of the Bughtis became 

 desirous of turning their swords into reaping-hooks, and waited on 

 that Officer along with Gourah, the brother of Daria Khan above 

 mentioned, and requested that a portion of land might be allotted 



