'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎183] (354/524)

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BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PROVINCE OF FARS. 183
1. The Ille Arab ha? about 6,000 households who are entrusted to
the care of Reza Kolee Khan.
2. Abol Yerdih are the Khans of the whole tribes of Khamseh, who
at one time had great influence, but now they are engaged in trade,
and most of them are in the Shah’s regiments. About 500 ryots of
this tribe may only be seen in their country.
3 and 4. Nafar and Bheharloo are two other tribes of the Khamseh.
The former are quiet and poor ryots, but the latter are very mischiev
ous, and a set of robbers, who by killing each other have put an end to
themselves and their ketkhodas, and all that remains of them are some
horsemen, who wander about plundering every one that comes in
their way.
5. Einaloo are all ryots, part travelling in the country and part
settled at Fursaw. Chardercherik and Daderyat were independent
tribes, hut for the last 20 years they have been attached to the Ilkhanee,
and pay an annual tribute.
Ear or Laristan was given to Gorgeen-i-Meylar by Kaikhosrow when
he divided Iran between his generals, and it is said . the descendants of
Gorgeen ruled at this place so long at the Saffavian dynasty ruled,
when Shah Abbass the Great, called the Ruler of Lar to Ispahan, one
of the last surviving descendants of Gorgeen, went there and took with
him the crown of his ancestors as a present for the Shah, and died at
Ispahan. The produce of Lar is dates, wheat, and barley. It has
very few wells. The people are supplied from tanks of rain-water, of
which there are about 12,000 at Lar ; some of them have cost about
2,000 or 3,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. . An engineer has constructed a canal around
the city of Lar, by which all the tanks thereabout are filled with
water. It serves also as a trench for defending the place in time of
need. There are about three or four forts in the mountains of Laristan :
one of these is named Jerash. The houses of the ryots are to be found
at its base, and a little higher those of the ketkhodas, and possesses
adjacent to it a tank of water enough to supply the inhabitants of the
place for a whole year.
Mehale Sabaa and Forg. The former’ produces dates, wheat, and
barley, and the latter rice andmvery sort of fruit.
Jehangeeriye is situate on thepsea-shore, and its seaport is Moghoo.
The villages Vaeshkenan, Terakema, and Bastak, are dependent on