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plnces surrounded by a round stone wall. There are only two buildings—one
the walls of a mausoleum said to have been that of the Chief of the Banja tribe
who formerly ruled at Las Bela, and from whom the present Jamots took the
country ; the other is the fallen debris of a building comprised of light-coloured
sandstone pillars. This is said to have covered the grave of Ibraham Gunga,
the tribe who ruled Las Bela before the Runjas: an inscribed stone is said to
be buried in the fallen debris. The village consists of 20 huts of Gadras and
Jamots, who came out to meet us accompanied by the Jam’s Naib. Water
good from one well; supply plentiful.
Mondayi ISth January 1902.—1.^ Bela, 10 miles.—The road ran
through cultivation for the first three miles, then through Karrir thorn
bush jungle to the village of Gudar and thence along sandy lanes
through cultivation till within a mile of Bela where the ground was much cut
up by water courses. About two miles from the town of Las Bela I was
met by the Jam’s younger brother Mir Abdul Karim Khan, Hafiz.Saifulla
Khan, the Tahsildar, and Saiyad Juman Shah and Haji Umar and seven other
R.unja Motabirs. The Jam, Kamal Khan, rode in with me, haying met me at
Sonmiani and accompanied me throughout. I was also accompanied by Sardar
Sir Nauwroz Khan of Kharan who has been with me throughout the tour. On
arrival at the Bela bungalow a guard-of-honour of 100 men of the Las Bela
Military Police and 21 men of the Lasi Irregular Infantry presented arms and
a salute of 13 guns was fired by the Jam’s artillery. The Jam’s son Mir
Gbulam Muhammad Khan, aged 5|, accompanied by 6 of the leading priests
and Saiyads, 7 Motabirs and 26 officials were present at the bungalow to meet
me. Arches were erected, the roads were decorated wdth flags and at night
the town was illuminated.
As soon as the Jam and bis followers had taken their departure, I and the
officers with me paid a visit to the tomb of Sir Robert Sandeman. We found
the small garden around the tomb in excellent order and well kept. The trees
are now growing up and the place is both quiet and pretty. The solid granite
tombstone is perfect and is kept clean and covered by a cloth. The dome
erected by the late Jam of Las Bela over the tomb is in good order and the
inscriptions, both on the tombstone itself and on the dome above, are in
perfect order.
14th January 1902. —Bela. Halt.—Jam Kamal Khan paid me a formal
visit at 9 a.m. accompanied by his brother Sardar Mir Abdul Karim Khan
and the Wazir, Khan Bahadur Ahmad Yar Khan, an escort of 1 Rasildar
and d sowars of the Head-Quarter Levies met the Jam at his palace and
accompanied him to the camp. On the Jam’s arrival Captain Ramsay, the
3rd Assistant, met him at the door of the tent, and I received him at the edge
of the carpet. Captain Winter, Political Agent, Southern Baluchistan, and
Khan Bahadur Moula Bakhsh, Personal Assistant, were also present. A
guard-of-honour of 50 rank and file of the 12th Bombay Infantry under a
Native officer presented arms on the Jam’s arrival and departure.
In the afternoon I visited the “Bet” or mound near Karia Pir to the
north-east of the town. This mound is some 300 yards in diameter and is full
of broken pottery, glass, bones and ashes. No one knows the history of it.
There is another low mound to the south of the town in which a pot full of
thin silver coins, about the size of an 8-anna piece, was found some years ago.
The Jam showed me some of these coins. They have an inscription" in Kufie
characters on both sides. On one coin on the face is the “ Kalima” in a square
in the centre. (La ilaha illallahu Muhammad-ur-Rasul-allah) and the names
of Muhammad’s successors Abu Bakr, Umar, Usman and Ali in the four
corners. On the reverse is Zarb-i-as-Sultan, Abu Sa’id Bahadur Khan Khalla-
dullahu Mulkuhu and round the rim is the year in Arabic words 728 A.H. =
A.D. 1327. In others of these coins the dies are different, but all appear to
belong to the time of Sultan Abu Sa’id of Persia. According to the Jam
Persian coins were the current coin in Bela up to the time of the British occu
pation. Sind and Persian coins are still to be found in the bazar.
In the evening I gave a dinner party to Jam Kamal Khan and his brother
Mir Abdul Karim Khan, Sardar Sir Nauwroz Khan of Kharan, the Wazir, Khan