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The Kalmatl are the principal inhabitants of Kalmat and PasnI. 
The Lattl are said to be Kalmatl under another name. 
The BulaidI may possibly be descendants of an Arab named 
Budail, two letters of his name having been transposed in a very 
common manner; e. g., “ aps ” for “ asp ” (horse) “ ushtur ” for “ shu« 
tur ” (camel) “ nlrmoc ” for nlmroc ” (half mid-day,) &c., &c. Per¬ 
haps such transposition of letters in the present case may be the 
result of “ a proverbial ” alliteration of the name of their chief town 
now called Bulaida, but which may have been first called Budaila i.e ., 
town of Budail, thus “ Budaila bulaida, ” viz., Budaila is “ a little 
town” ( bulaida being the diminutive of balda “a town”) ; compare later 
on “ Baloc badroc ” or “ Baloc Gadroc. , ’ Budail of the Bajali tribe, sent 
from ‘Alman by A1 Hajjaj, A. H. 86-96 against Small and killed there 
by the enemy, may have been the founder of “ Budaila bulaida,” but 
Budail is a common Arab name. 
As before stated Arab historians mention a people called 
Qufs or Kufij inhabiting mountains to the south of Kirman, called 
the mountains of Quf's, somewhat to the south-east of which the 
low-lying country was inhabited by a people called the Balus or Baluj = 
the Baloch. Some of the later historians have given Kuj or 
Koj as the Persian rendering of Qufs. As, however, I met, at 
Sadech, a tribe who believed themselves to be aborigines, of whom there 
are many in Bashkard to the south of Kirman, whose principal habitat 
is the mountain range of Groko in Bashkard, about 30 miles from the 
seacoast (the highest range in Balochistan, viz., 7,000 feet) and who 
call themselves Kufish or Kujic , Kufij , or Qufs 
I think that the Q u f? of Bilathurl, Tabari (who also gives ^ 
Kufij), and Ibn Haukal are the correct readings. It is easily seen that 
or if badly written in Arabic characters, would very likely be 
copied as and both of which are given as alternative readings, 
and by ‘Abu-l-fida- the last explained as the Persian equivalent of the first. 
I leave it to more competent authority to decide whether Kofish, Kofic, 
Kufij, Kus, Kuj or Koj, Kui, Kec, Koc, Klj, Kej, Kiz, Kish, Cash 
and Cush, the son of Ham, are simply variations of the same name or 
not. I would now suggest an identification of the u Paricanii ” of 
Herodotus, with a tribe called the “Purki,” the plural of which would be 
Purkianii, Paricanii, i.e., perhaps, “Vehrkan” of the Zend and “Varkan” 
of ancient Persian. They dwell to the north of Kech in the locality 
assigned to the Paricanii in our maps, and I submit that the identifica¬ 
tion of them with the Parikanii (Paricanii) is on etymological grounds 
preferable to that of the Brahui with the Parikanii, though “ Varkan” 
and “ Ba-rohi ” may both mean “ hillmen,” and I take it that (as al- 
