'Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.' [‎193] (235/476)

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appear to know his station; but I shall try whether he or I have
" "nost power here, by dispatching him to Rusheed Khan to-morrow
" morning ; he wdl catechise him to some purpose." I should have
laughed at the petulance of this blusterer, but, as he had the means of
cam ing his threat into execution, I deemed it wise to put a stop to
any coercive attempt of that kind, and I thought it easiest done by
menacing him in return. I therefore told him that I was an En-
g ish merchant, and that he had better beware how he interfered
with me. This declaration rather astounded him, but after a short
pause, he turned to my Belooches, and rejoined, that they could not
p ead the same excuse for appearing in Nurmansheer, and please
God they should, at all events, go to Krook. I had no longer pa
tience to bear with such arrogance, and told him that he was an
impudent scoundrel, that he dare not send me or any of my people
to Rusheed Khan, and that he might be assured I should represent
his conduct to the prince on my arrival at Kirman. The guide and
some by-standers now interposed, and I imagine the fellow felt con
scious that he had been too precipitate in his menaces, as he growled
m a very low accent, that I ought to remember I was in the King's
dominions, where strangers could not travel without accounting for
their intentions. I made him no reply, and as it began to rain just
after he had done speaking, he slunk off into the fort, leaving me
master of the field.
mh April. I cautioned my guide to sleep near us, in order to
preclude the possibility of delay on his account, and left Boorja this
morning long ere any person had thoughts of moving abroad. At
the end of ten miles north north-west, over a plain diversified with
bushy and tilled ground, I arrived at the town of Nuheemabad. The
Kud Khoda of this place is Kureem Khan, a Belooche of the Koord
tribe, and brother of the principal chief of Surhud, Oolfut Khan,
but having quarrelled with him and the other Sirdars Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. of that country,
he was dispossessed of his paternal inheritance, and fled to Nurman
sheer, where the Kirman government granted him the depopulated
ibrt and town of Nuheemabad, a system of donation that it has ex-
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