The Shum plain formerly belonged to the Shumbani tribe, but they have been driven from it by the Murree, who devastated all the country around their own district. The Dauggati or wild ass roams over the elevated plain.
Gurchani dwell south of the Lughari. They are said not to be pure Baluch ; the tradition being that Doda of the Deli caste was banished from his tribe, and, mounting his mare, he rode into the desert, lost his way, wandered on and on, until at last he was found by the Rind more dead than alive. After trying all other means to revive him, a young virgin was sent to lie with him, that the warmth of her body might restore him to life, which was effectual, and he married her. His family rejoined him from Tatta or Sewerton in Sind. The Gurchani have 49 sub-sections.
The Dreshuk is a Baluch tribe dwelling south of the Gurchani. They are large landowners, but all their lands are cultivated by the Jat race. They have ten sub-sections.
The Khetrani or Khuttran tribe, about 18,000 in number, are in a district in the hills of Baluchistan to the north of the Bugti country, which their district adjoins. Its greatest extent is about 120 miles N. and S., and 70 miles E. and W. The chief town is Barkhau, which is about 160 miles N.N.E. from Shikarpnr. N. of the Khetrani are the Af ghans, to their IV. the Murree (Baluch), and on their E. are the Lashari and Gurchani tribes. The nor Khetrani are not Afghans Baluch, but they intermarry with both these races. They follow agriculture, and are of peaceable habits, their country being sufficiently fertile to supply their wants ; and though brave and ready to fight when attacked, they abstain from plundering their neighbours. The river Lar runs through their country.
The Lashari and Gurchani dwell in a barren and unproductive strip of country between the Khetrani and Multan. They are shepherds and herdsmen.
The Jamali is a small, poor clan of Baluch cultivators and shepherds, who reside at Rojhan at the N.W. of Shikarpur, and on the edge of the Barshori desert, also in E. Cutchi. They dwell in Upper Sind along with the Jettui, a similar tribe. They are principally in Khyra Garhi in Larkhana. They are not predatory, and some are artisans. A tribe of the same name is found in Lower Sind.
The Dumki tribe occupy the territory between the Mazari on the N. and the Burdi on the S.
They were the most martial and formidable of all the Baluch tribes. General Jacob disarmed them, and they subsided into peaceable and industrious cultivators.
Burdi are a small tribe of Baluch, residing mostly in the Burdeka district on the western bank of the Indus, with the Mazari district on the north and Sind canal on the south. They con tinued predatory until the year 1860, combining with the predatory Dumki, Jakrani, Khosa, etc. ; but ou General Jacob disarming all the population of Sind, and cutting a road through the forest, this sufficed to render the Burdi peaceable and well-disposed cultivators. Several small branches dwell in Sind and Cutchi.
The Khosa tribe is scattered all over the country between Nuggur Parkur and Dadar, and have several villages on the Sind border. They are said to have been originally Abyssinians. The tribe is found in many parts of Upper Sind, Cutchi, and on the southern frontier of the Panjab. Major Pollock, writing in 1860 of the Khosa in the plains of Dehra Ghazi Khan, said a Khosa who has not been in jail for cattle-stealing, or deserved to be, who has not committed a murder, or debauched his neighbour's wife, or destroyed his neighbour's land mark, is a decidedly creditable specimen ; and if, added to this, he is out of debt, he is a perfect marvel. They have 35 sub-sections.
The Maghazzi are subdivided into four principal families or clans, of which the Butani of Jell are the most illustrious, and give the chief or sirdar to the whole. They boast of being able to muster 2000 fighting men ; between them and the Rind feud long existed. The Maghazzi and Rinti-are alike addicted to the use of ardent spirits, opium, and bhang. They are one of the principal Baluch tribes in Cutchi. Their chief town is Jhal, 24 miles from Gandava, at the foot of the western hills. They can raise a formidable force of well mounted men. They resemble the Narui in size and stature, and, like them, have good features and expressive countenances, but arc not capable of bearing so much fatigue. A small number of them in 1830 defeated the Rind. Pottinger in cluded amongst the Maghazzi, the Abrah, Burdi, Isobani, Jakrah, Jakrani, Jalani, Jataki, Kalan darani, Lashari, Matihi, Musani, Kakrani, Nari, Turbandzai, and Unar. Postans considered them to be of Jat origin.