BRAHUI, the dominant race in Baluchistan. Their tribes, above 70 in number, are nomades, residing in one part of the country in summer, mi grating to another for the winter season, and con stantly shifting for pasturage. The Baluchi has a tall figure, long visage, and raised features. The Brehm have short, thick bones, with round faces and flat lineaments, are stout and squat, and num bers of them have brown hair and beards. Their name is said to be from an affix bowl,' and 'rob,' a bill ; and the name of the Narui, or Baluch race is said to mean ' not mountaineers.' The Brahui have no religious men, whether syud, pir, mullet', or fakir. The tribes reside in tomans, or collec tions of tents. These tents are made of goat's hair, black or striped. The furniture is very simple, —a few metal cooking-pots, a stone hand-mill, and some rough carpets and rugs, with a distaff for spinning wool, and a hookah, are all that are usually found iu a Brahui tent. That of the chief may perhaps be better furnished, and he is richer than his neighbours in flocks and herds. The dress of the lower orders is made up of a long tunic, trousers loose at the feet. The Kamburani, the chief tribe, are divided into three distinct gradations of rank, called Ahniedzai, Khani, and Kamburani. The first supplies the khan ; the
Khani are of the secondary rank of chiefs. The word Kamburani includesall the remainder of the tribe, but in common is applicable to the whole body. They receive wives from, but do not marry their daughters into, other tribes. The typical Brahui are certain tribes in Sabarawan and Jhala•an. The Brahui are Sunni Mahomedans. They have, both in feature and speech, indications of a Turanian element. Their political chief is the Khan of Kalat.
They are entirely illiterate; not a single book exists in their language, or specimen of. their language reduced to any form of writing. It is called Kur-Gali, and, according to Dr. Caldwell, is mainly Panjabi, with a Dravidian element ; according to Mr. Campbell, is mainly Aryan (Indo-Persic), with a Turanian element. Ethno logists are inclined to consider them to be of the same Scythic stock as the Dravidian races in the Peninsula, and infer from this that the passage of the Dravidian tribes from Turan was along the valley of the Indus.—Mr. Campbell, pp. 54-56.