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have left and lead a nomad life, owing to oppression and excessive taxation.
The houses here lose the typical Persian domed style ; they are all flat-
roofed with thick rafters covered over with mud. The revenue of Baft
was, in 1894, 790 tumdns, but the Governor takes 1,000. There are 2
carpenters, 2 mechanics, 5 dyers and 4 felt-makers.
The revenue of the district of Aqta,’ with which Afshar is incorporated,
was 28,000 tumdns in 1903.
Five hundred to 700 mans of opium are grown here yearly, and the price
varies from Us. 4 to Rs. 10 a man.
A fair amount of supplies could be gathered here from the neighbouring
districts of Saidabad, Rabur and Jlruft.
The principal nomads of the district are :—
•
Taka Lu
. 30 families.
Kara Kuin Lu .••••••
. 150
Jabal Barizi ....••••
50
Sivandi ...••••••
£
. 100
Total
. 330
The Kara Kuin Lu are the remnants of the famous tribe from which spuang
the “ Black Sheep ” dynasty of Turkomans {vide also the article on the
nomad tribes of Kirman) .—{Brazier-Creagh, 1894—Sykes, 1902-06.)
BAG—
A Persian tribe now inhabiting the villages of Jimeh, Khush Ab and
Khushukan in the Dashtistan district of Pars. They were formerly the
masters of Borazjun, but were expelled by the Paparis about two genera
tions ago. They have now sunk to the level of ordinary cultivators. •
{Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
BAGH— Lat. 29° 42' N. ; Long. 50° 25' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Liravi district of Fars on the coast of the Persian Gulf,
3 miles north-west of Sabz-Pushan and about 25 miles south-east of Bandar
Dilam. It contains 30 houses of Lurs and ’Arabs. Andld from the Kuh-
i-Bang passes close to the village. Colville says there is a well of good
water^here. There is a headland here called Cape Bagh, which is a very
remarkable scarped cliff, slate colour and red alternating, and fluted up and
down with horizontal marks along it.— {Colville—Persian Gulf Gazetteer,
1908.)
BAGHAK— Lat. 28° 54' 30" N. ; Long. 51° 9' 30" E. ; Elev.
A village in the Tangistan district of Fars, 9 miles west by north of
Ahram at the northern end of the Kuh-i-Mund coast range, and upon the
route from Bushire town to Ahram. It consists of 50 houses enclosed by a
mud wall, 8 or 9 feet high, with round towers at the corners, the whole
forming a'square enclosure. East of the village, tracts of wheat and barley
alternate with stretches of grass land. Wheat, barley, dates, water-melons
and fire-wood are the products of this place. The water is said to be
brackish. The inhabitants are said to belong to the Puladi tribe. There
is a good site for a camp here. Date palms number 500.—{Felly—Durand
—Butcher, March 1888—Stotherd, 1893—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)