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'Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.' [‎71] (113/476)

The record is made up of 1 volume (423 pages). It was created in 1816. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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BRAHOOES.
71
impossible to mistake a man of one class for a member of the other.
The Brahooes instead of the tall figure, long visage, and raised features
of their fellow-countrymen, have short thick bones, with round faces,
and flat lineaments ; in fact, J may assert, that I have not seen anv
other Asiatics to whom they bear any resemblance, for numbers of
them have brown hair and beards. In husbandry and other domestic
occupations, they are laborious hard workers, and those who reside in
the vicinity of the plains to the southward of Kelat, till large tracts of
land, and dispose of the produce for exportation to the Hindoos of
Kelat, Bela, and Khozdar; this and the sale of the cheese and Ghee,
made from the flocks, with a few coarse blankets, carpets, and felts,
form the only traffic the Brahooes enter into. Their food is the same
as the Belooches, except that they prefer flesh-meat to every thing
else, and devour it in a half dressed state, without bread, salt, or vege
tables ; they are famous for having most voracious appetites, and
their flocks of sheep and goats, being very numerous and prolific,
enable them to indulge their inclination for meat by consuming a
greater quantity. They affirm, perhaps with truth, that in the cold
mountains which they inhabit, it would be impossible to survive during
the winter without a certain portion of animal food, which they deem
not only nutritious, but to have the same heating properties that are
attributed to spirituous liquors in Europe, and to serve for this con
sumption they accordingly cure a supply of meat the latter end of
Autumn, by drying it in the sun and then smoking it over a fire of
green wood: the meat thus prepared has by no means a disagreeable
flavour, and its taste may be very aptly compared to that of the rein
deers' tongues exported from Russia; it will keep for several months,
and when they store it up for the cold weather, the only precaution
they conceive requisite is to place it so, that one piece shall not touch
another.
The Brahooes are equally faithful in an adherence to their promises,
and equally hospitable with the Belooches, and on the whole I greatly
prefer their general character. From what I have already said on it,
it is evident that they are a more quiet and industrious class, and their

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Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.

Publication Details: London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1816 Printed by A. Strahan, New-Street-Square.

Notes: Printer's name from colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. .

Physical Description: xxx, 423, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (col.), 1 map ; 28 cm. (4º)

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