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branch bends up a rough and rocky ravine called Mazari Wad, reaches
alow kotal at 7^ miles. There is a good camel track, but'the road
would require preparation for the march of any but small bodies of troops
or for guns, for quite 1 mile. The general gradient however is easy. (Jn
the west side of the kotal an easy descent of 100 feet leads into the
Barabchah plain. West of the Mazari kotal } as far as Samuli, there is
no grass. [Peacocke )
MEKH-I-RUSTAM OR PULCHOTA.-Lat.29 0 12'; Long. 65° n'jElev.
4)232 .
An abrupt conical peak. 300 or 400 feet high, with lofty sand moundson
its southern side lying some 3 or 4 miles south-west of the Lora Hamun.
At a place called Yagi, at the foot of this peak, is a well, but in 1885 this
was blocked up 1 his peak and a line of sand hills enclose a tract called
the Wad-i-Sultan on the north. [Lockewood — MacGregor — Peacocke.)
MEKHMALL —see Mall.
MEN DO RIVER—
Rises in the south-eastern spurs of Malik Teznanand flows south into
the Gat-i-Barote, but is generally dry. [Scuiamore.)
MENGALS—
Up to a comparatively recent date, the Brahui tribe of Mengals—the
most numerous tribe now populating Nushki—resided in Kalat.
During the reign of Mir Mehrab Khan, for various reasons, a feud broke
out between the Mengals and the Badini branch of the Rakhshani
Da rue h. In the desultory fighting that ensued, the Mengals lost heavily,
r er tie conflict had continued several years, the Khan stepped in and
a justed the feud by compelling the Badini to surrender to the
Mengals two shabanaroees of water in the Kaisar stream. The
Mengals took advantage of the opening thus offered them to emigrate
o us 1 w ere they built their village on land which, up to the
present, remains . Rakhshani property. The Mengal Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. soon
f r^n nd ^!r 0 KT en,enCeof 1 having his tribal property divided, and so
qu se t le khan to exchange the water which his tribe owned in
Kalat for water of equivalent value in Nushki. In this the Khan acquies-
n ’ ai ' 1 ^ 1C 1 lengak) in lieu of their Kalat property, 5 shabana-
r r rv n ? K . aisar j lver > exempt from all revenue charges. The Mengals
rom time to time added to their possession, not only by purchase and
mortgage and sometimes by marriage, but largely by forcibly exacting
TL b L 0 °A d ? he j in the frec l uent quarrels which followed
knlr P.f ’ Th £/^ lands which this tribe claims come under the
vprv M e pg a l possessions in Nushki are, however, still
hppn ’ 16 tri ^ e . 1S ’ b y inclination, a pastoral one : had it not
th .® re w as nothing to prevent the Mengals following the exam-
i 1 ? 1 , n . a ^ set L hem by the Ladini Rakhshani and gradually absorbing
nrlrMnn^f 1 ’ ^ ^ ^ the y out number the Rakhshani in the pro-
¥ h r° t ° ? ne * ^ he ^ en gai s considering their numbers appear
^ '" lth SmgU,ar modera tion. Finding their water more
annnMl" u ? irng \ te . the 68 3 acres of land they possessed, they
iv ' V il 18 ’ rC i rn ^ lcir more favoured Badini neighbours whatever
additional lands they may require. In 1897 no less than 300 acres of