'Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.' [‎72] (114/476)

72 BRAHOOES.
habits are decidedly averse from that system of rapine and violence
pursued by the other ; nor can we fairly ascribe this to any sentiment
save a good one, for in personal bravery and endurance ot privations
and hardships, the Brahooes are esteemed superior to the inhabitants
of all the neighbouring countries: their chiefs exercise a much more
despotic authority in the various tribes and Kheils, than among the
Belooches, and the people are equally tenacious of their respectability,
though they obey them from a different feeling : in manner they are
mild and inoffensive, though very uncivilized and uncouth; but as
the latter is evidently the effect of a want of worldly knowledge and
guile, their awkward attempts to be civil please, because we see that
they are incited to make them by a natural propensity to oblige,
unaccompanied by any interested motive. They are free from the
worst traits of the Belooches, which are comprised in being avaricious,
revengeful, and cruel, and they seldom look for any reward for their
favours or services : their gratitude is lasting, and fidelity such, that
even the Belooche chiefs retain them as their most confidential and
trust-worthy servants.
The amusements of this class are so correspondent with those
already described of the Belooches, that I need not particularize them :
in general the Brahooes pride themselves on being better marksmen
than the Belooches, who admit the fact, and ascribe it to their having
more practice, for none of them ever quit their Ghedans, even to
go a few hundred yards, without a matchlock: they are likewise
good swords-men, but never use spears, considering them a useless
cumbersome weapon. A Brahooe always dresses in the same style,
and whether it be summer or winter, freezing hard, or under a verti
cal sun, his whole cloaths are comprised in a loose white shirt, a pair
of trowsers of the same texture, and a felt cap ; the shepherds some
times wear a covering of white felt, made so as to wrap round the body,
and come to a peak above the crown of the head ; this habit will
keep off a vast deal of rain or snow, and is exclusively used for that
purpose. The domestic life of the Brahooes is simple in the extreme;
the men tend the flocks, till the ground, and do other out-door