"أسفار في بلوشستان والسند؛ مع تقرير جغرافي وتاريخي لهذين البلدين، وخريطة." [‎٧‎٣] (٤٧٦/١١٥)

BRAHOOES.
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labour, in which they are, if needful, assisted by the women ; but
commonly the duties of the latter are to attend to the household
affairs, such as milking, making butter, cheese, and Ghee, and they also
weave and work carpets, felts, and coarse white cloth. They are not,
as I have previously remarked*, secluded from the society of the men,
but all live and eat together. Their dress consists of a long shift
and pair of trowsers, both of cotton cloth, and after the} arrive at the
age of puberty they wear over the former a kind of stays, made to lace
behind, the fronts of which are decorated with ridiculous devices of
birds or animals worked in coloured worsted. In religion the Bra-
hooes are all Soonnitte Moosulmans, and their external forms of reli
gion, marriage and interment, are practised according to the tenets
of that sect. I have therefore no remarks to add upon them, for
there seems to be nothing peculiar or observable in their attention to
them, unless I may note that the same simplicity that is so apparent
in the common occurrences of their lives, equally pervades their man
ners with respect to these more important considerations.
Before I proceed to offer a few cursory remarks on the remaining
classes of the inhabitants of Kelat, namely Hindoos, Babees, and Deh-
wars, I shall finish this section by annexing the names of some of the
Brahooe tribes, from which specimen the diversity of the whole will
be appreciated, and the consequent perplexity, if not impossi
bility of making satisfactory inquiries will be more readily under
stood.
Brahooc Tribes,
Names.
Numbers in fighting men.
Chiefs.
1. Kumburanees
2. Zuhree
8. Mingull
1000
8000
10500
4000
Muhmood Khan.
Qadir Buksh.
Wulee Mohumud Khan.
4. Soomlaree
* Vide Narrative 3d February.
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