'Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.' [‎138] (180/476)

jog kullugan.
mountains. This trivial incident was looked upon by my companions,
who were ignorant of the use of my compass *, to be little short of
an act of divine inspiration, and a fortnight posterior to its occurring
I was astonished to hear it cited by a man to whom Moorad had told
the circumstances, as a wonderful proof ot my wisdom.
We travelled without intermission till seven o'clock in the e \ cning
and had then, by my computation, completed a distance of upwards
of forty-eight miles. I should have continued onwards, but my
people and camels too, were worn out with the fatigue of this and
the two preceding days, and on communing, 1 stood the only advo
cate for exerting ourselves in an endeavour to gain the mountains ere
we came to a stop. To augment our distress, the provisions fell
short, and we had served out the last remains of water belore we
halted, so that we were compelled to watch away the night under the
various hardships of fatigue, hunger, and thirst: the latter only in
commoded me, but I consoled myself, and encouraged the despon
dent, with the reflection that early next morning we should be able
to procure all that was necessary to our comforts.
4,th April. Twelve miles from our halting place, partly o\ei the
oravelly desert, and partly among stony bare hills, I arrived at the
village of Kullugan, situated in a narrow and most romantic valley
of Mukran. My intention on quitting Nooshky, was to have gone to
the town of Jalk about fourteen miles to the northward, but Moorad,
who I now learned was married to a daughter ot the Sirdar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. , pre
vailed upon me to come to this place. When 1 had got within half a
mile of the village, he suggested that I should remain under the
shade of some date trees, whilst he rode on to apprize the chief of
my coming. I objected to this, as seeming to arrogate consequence
to myself, but Moorad assured me that it was customary with stran
gers, and I afterwards invariably practised it m this part of the coun-
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* Whenever any one saw my compass and enquired what it was, I answered, it A\as
. . r .1 'K'iVilnVi ftho tomb of Mahomed at Mecca, to
a Kiblah Nooma, i. e. a pointer out of the Kiblah (the tomo 01 ma
which all Moosulmans turn when they pray), and that 1 used it in my ( e\o u