1 108 POO.
2 evacuated that fort, reached Poolajee in safety.—(See Kanun.)
3 Water is obtained in wells at Poolajee, and the immediate vici-
4 nity yields supplies in moderate quantities. The heat in summer
5 is probably as great as in any part of the world. Lat. 29° 3’,
6 long. 68° 30’.
7 POOLKEE, in Seistan, a great ruined town on the right
8 bank of the Helmund, which here flows through a narrow tract
9 of great fertility. ‘The remains of this once extensive and flou-
10 rishing city exhibit the ruins of ramparts, houses,’ and gardens,
11 covering an extent of at least sixteen square miles. The river is
12 here about two hundred yards broad, not fordable, and very pic-
13 turesque. The beautiful and fertile country, formerly densely
14 peopled and highly cultivated, is now occupied only by a few
15 nomadic Belooches, who live in tents, never free from the terror
16 of attacks from their fiercer and more predatory countrymen.
17 Lat. 62° 30’, long. 30° 30’.
18 E.LC. Ms. Doc. POOLSINGEE, in Afghanistan, a village six miles south of
19 Kilat-i-Ghiljie, on the road to Kandahar. Lat. 32° 4’, long. 66° 44’.
20 Pott. Beluoch.109, = POORA, in Beloochistan, a town on the route from Nooshky
21 to Bunpoor, and two hundred and fifty miles south-west of the
22 former town. It is neatly built, and is situate amidst groves of
23 palm-trees, yiclding fine dates, and forming the principal wealth
24 of the inhabitants. This town, with its vicinity, originally held by
25 the Mulikuh sept of Belooches, passed, by the event of war, to the
26 Urbabis, whose chief, the Sirdar of Bunpoor, now holds it. Pot-
27 tinger describes this people as the fairest tribe of Belooches which
28 he met with, and adds, “there is a peculiar elevation in their
29 countenances that pre-eminently distinguishes them amongst their
30 countrymen. They are, without almost an exception, tall, hand-
31 some men, with great indications of activity. Thcir predatory
32 character, on which they pride themselves, is sufficiently proved
33 by their deeds.” It seems, therefore, that the dignity of their
34 physiognomical character is little in accordance with their habits
35 of life. The population of Poora is about 2,000. Lat. 28° 17’,
36 long. 61° 57’,
37 Masson, Bal. Afg. POORALLY, a river of Beloochistan, rising in Jhalawan,
38 Paria flowing southward into Lus, and falling into the Indian Ocean in
39 Jour. As. Soc.
40 Fea tes lat. 25° 23’, long. 66° 30’, a few miles west of Sonmeanee, after
41 Carless, Met. on ry . «
42 Provinee of Lus. @ course of a hundred miles. It is a shallow stream, running
43 over a wide rucky or sandy bed; but when swelled by rains