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Bant alow. All of these Arats are from the Trucial Litttor^l
of * Batinah* (•Oman)•
¥11 .IAL.IB QF f m£G- f A!}rB ^^T^ORI.
The only villages of some importance "re:-
(1) Pishkan where a Kail) Wali i uhammad Hamnmad of
Batinah Coast resides and carries out functions of local
adriiiiistration ? on "behalf of His Highness the Sultan of Uiscat.
Fishers or fish merchants while go to «iwni, Cans and totktu
Gattur Ports often pass through Pishkan.
(?) 3ur which is a snail port renowned as a
quarry for catching excellent arowns. A . unshi of the
Sultaniah Customs Department also resides here to superintend
and recover the tax on fish and prowns cau^ht#
(3) Nago^Wier# an Artificer of the »>ask Su"b
Division also resides may some day hecoire important town as
it is gateway of ilekran Trade. Moreover the erection of an
'VW
emergency aerodrome here is under centeplation of the Imperial
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Airways Authorities. Chiefs of the Persian Lalochistan
resort to this place, as some of them have their- inter-
rarriate relations ^ith the people of this place.
{4J Bodhar which is near Pishkan is only a
cluster of a very few cottages of fishers,
LANGUAGES. AK'l MTBUCTIOH.
The languages spoken are J ekrani isalochi, Arabic,
Cujrati, Bindhi and Urdu. With the exception of Hindus and
Khojas, the predominant religion is l uhar-madonism of the
Hanafi and Shafi schools. Among Hekrani Balochis, horever,
there is a peculiar sect kno^n as 2ikris who instead of
praying 5 times a day only racite in chorus the name of God
and their so calldd prophet •Mahdi*. On Haj ^ay they hol j/a
splendid assemlDlaj e at a place near Turbat and perfortr their
^aj ceremonies there.
There is no non-sectarian school at Gwaiur from
the narent State of Muscat, A school for the education of
Balochi "boys and organised by the local Kohda Community
^ho also received a monthly donation fror the local unicipal
t.f Mi
Coinmittee ^as in existence in the beginning of the year