"أسفار في بلوشستان والسند؛ مع تقرير جغرافي وتاريخي لهذين البلدين، وخريطة." [‎٣‎٧] (٤٧٦/٧٩)

SOHERAB.
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karpoor *, and such is their influence in the place, that the keys of
the town gate are entrusted in the hands of their senior Brahmin
every night, of which class there are several, who officiate at a
Pagoda that the community have here dedicated to Kalee, the god
dess of fate : they seem to be a most dissolute debauched set, and at
the season in which we were there, did nothing but smoke, chew
Bhung f, and sit over the fire, which destructive vices give them all
the symptoms and diseases of premature old age; the bazar is well
supplied by means of them, and they have likewise two water mills,
that are turned by a stream running through the valley.
6th February. From Khozdar to Bunkar, the distance ten or
eleven miles, the road good, leading, with a considerable ascent,
through the vallies of Khozdar and Baghwan, by which latter name
the village is also often distinguished ; like the former, it belongs to
Meer Moorad Ally Kumburanee, but is neither so large or populous ;
and the whole of its inhabitants, save two Brahooe families, had
emigrated to Kutch Gundava.
1th February. Our Mushks J of water were frozen into a mass
of ice this morning; and our people could not venture out before
eight o'clock, at which hour we mounted, and after a tedious
and most fatiguing march of nearly fifty miles, through a bleak and
desert country, with a bad road, alternately over and between moun
tains, we arrived at the village of Soherab or Sooriab, situated in a
plain of the same name, at nine o'clock at night: it became so
piercingly cold after sunset, that we were obliged to dismount and
lead the camels, which were nearly exhausted from famine and toil,
when we got to the village, where a Mingull Brahooe kindled a large
fire, and gave up his house to us, himself and family going into a
neighbour's. The valley of Soherab is very extensive, being from
* Two large trading cities lying north-east and east of Kelat. Vide narrative of the
23d of January, (note.)
f Cannabis Sativa.
% Leathern bags, for carrying water, used by travellers all over the east.