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Besides those noted therein, three other small and comparatively un
important tribes require special mention owing to their having migrated
somewhat far afield.
The Chavarl are located on the southern slopes of the Kuh-i-Gurrin
between the Falak-ud-Din and the Mumianwand. They have built them
selves villages on their lands, which are highly cultivated and productive.
Although the winter is very severe and fuel is very restricted in this region,
this tribe does not migrate to the warmer climes of the south. They are
divided into two branches, the Safid and the Kilas; and they are said to be
’All Ilahls. Their numbers are estimated at 300 families, or some 1,000
souls; and they supply a company for the Amrdi regiment.
The Bavail are another branch of the Tihran who have also become some
what estranged from the parent tribe by change of locality. They are found
to the south of the Alishtar plain between Mumianwand and Quhwand.
They pay mdlidt to the chief of the Tihran, and consequently are included
amongst that tribe. They own well-watered lands, which are also well-
wooded and productive of all sorts of fruit, besides gum-tragacanth and gaz,
of manna from the tamarisk shrub, and cereals. Their cultivation is limited
Owing to the inaccessibility and wildness of their country, they h ave a b ad •
reputation as robbers, though not wanting in personal bravery. They enjoy
an excellent climate, and it is said that amongst them are found centenarians
still capable of doing work. Their numbers are estimated as some 200
families or 800 souls.
The SinjM are a small and, in later days, a much reduced, branch of the
Tihran, who have wandered far afield and are found to the north of the
Alishtar plain, between the Mumianwand and Itiawand, though they migrate
to qishldqs at Kuh-i-Dasht and Tihran. The chiefs of this tribe are baiyids
and in former days were important personages having followers m places
as far distant as Tabriz. But of later years they have become poor and
dispersed and are now said to number not more than 70 or 80 families.
PvsU-i-Kith —The tribes of this district of Luristan are entirely nomadic
in character and as mentioned above they are distinguished from the
Lurs of Pish Kuh by the prefix “ Faili.” They occupy a remote and almost
inaccessible country, a succession of arduous mountain ranges extending
from the Saimarreh river to the Turkish frontier. It is not, therefore
surprising that their chieftain occupies a position almost independent of
the Central Government. The present A ah is a direct descendant of Hus i
Khan the first Vali of Luristan. The last A ah to hold sway over both
p. , B h an( i p U sht-i-Kuh was Hasan Khan. Of the three sons of Hasan
Khan mentioned by Layard as having divided the tribes amongst them
onte death of
the^pretensions 11 of Haidar Khan, the third son, to inherit the title of his
_ I Uairi Kit- flip Persian Governor of Luristan, whereupon the
Xad Khan, took refuge with the Assyrian
elder biothe , f (DeBode.) Eventually, two or three years
Arabs on the 0 f all things Lur, Sartip Haidar Khan of the
Sinwfnd was put to death by the Governor of the district, after havrng