1 496 LOWER SlitJX
2 ghauna, barbaiDUh and uncivilized, but hospitable, hardy, lab >i ions
3 and honest. They arc divided into Khails like the Afjjhaniis, hut
4 the general government has swallowed up the internal instiLutions of
5 those societies.
6 All the hilly parts of Belochestauu belong to the Braclioocs ; the
7 plains are inhabited, by another race called Rind, of which numbers
8 reatde in Seeweestaun. • Theie two races, thou^ oofflprehcnded un-
9 der the Gonunon name of Beloche, are eotirdy diatinct in most
10 qtecte. Tbsat languages dife entircSy fiom each-other, and fiom
11 att the neighbonnng towns^- Neithce seems to be coniiebtad with
12 the Arabs, at has bfiiaa supposed. The last due^ NulMer Khnu,
13 had sutgected. oU BebduBtaun, but the rdgping prince^ -Malniioed
14 Khatia's possessions, are leduioed bj iebellions'to iihe disttnota dbovt
15 mentioned, and some trifling ones on the desart at the western foot
16 of the Table I^nd. His revenoe is only 300,000 rupees (dBatifi(>0)i
17 but he maintains ten thousand troops, and migbt, in case of necessity,
18 call out twenty thousand on foot, on horseback, or^ondiOBedaries.
19 He acknowledges the King of CaubuVs sovereignty, payt « qoit rent
20 for his dominions, and furnishes eight thousand troops to the royal
21 army, on express condition that they are not to be employed in ciTil
22 wars.
23 Shawl, with Hurren and Daujil (two districts near Dera Ghauzee
24 Khaun), were granted by Ahmed .Shauh to Nasseer Kfiami, in reward
25 of his serv ices, and on condition of his permanently supplying one
26 Uiousand foot to serve in Cashmeer.
27 I shall say but litCte of Sind. I made lew inquiries resj^cting that
28 province while in Iihe Gfubul domini<ms, because theie was a British
29 nisnon si its capital } and I haye since fimnd that an aeoonui w31
30 probably be laid belbve the public by a Gentleman * who has had
31 beUer opportunities of knowing it than. I possess.
32 * I jfiitffliant Pottnigeari to whom i am indnblwl for some piuticalan reapecting Sind.
33 3omeoltHn I vmm to a ■Mmuatyt by t issfciiiml MwcMd <f the Bombay Marine, wbo
34 MCCBipwifld llw flUMMB to find*
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