LAS, HIND., of Jhelum district, inferior land.
LAS, a section of Baluchistan bordering the Arabian Sea. Its ruler is styled the Jam. Las is separated from Lower Sind and the Indus delta by the Hala mountains.
It is a small maritime province, 100 miles long and 80 miles broad, and bounded on the north by the hills of Jhalawan, and east and wer.t by high mountains. On the north is the Wu I I State, and on the south the Indian Ocean. Major Preedy gives the names of nine tribes of this province, as the 13hoora, Goonga, Guddore. Hungaryah, Mandra, Roonja, Shaikh, Sabra, and Jamote ; but Colonel Goldsmid enumerates nine teen, viz.— Jamote. Goonga. Guddra. Bodhnr.
Sabra and Achra. Boona. Mussoor, Manga.
Guddore. Moondranee. Baradia. Waora.
Angaryo. Sheikh. Meree. Zor.
Roonjha. Islussona. Dhira.
The Guddra, Gnddon, or Guddo, settled in Las, are an Arab tribe, there probably since the •first occupation of Mekran and Sind by Muhain madans. They have characteristics similar to those of the Jokya, Numria, and Jutt, etc. Beyla is its capital, and is north of Sonmeanee, its prin cipal seaport. In winter the climate is cool and dry, but the summer heats are great. It produces grain, and is occupied by the Lassi division of the Lumri or Numri tribe. They have about twelve divisions or clans, one of.. which, the
Jamhut, furnishes their chief or jam. They claim to trace their origin to Samar, who founded Samarcand, and acknowledge a consanguinity to the Bhatta of Jeysulmir. The Lumri are an active, hardy, pastoral people ; their wealth consists in flocks of goats, with fewer buffaloes and camels. They despise agriculture ; wild Lumri are found grazing on the rocky banks of the IIab river. Their language varies little from that current in Sind. They manufacture coarse fabrics from the wool of their goats and camels. The Lumri eats meat almost raw, and is greatly addicted to the use of opium. Las has only two or three places for receipt of custom. Near one of these, Bela, are found coins, trinkets, and funereal jars. Son meanee contains numerous of the Meliman sect, and part of the fixed population of Bela is called Jaghdal. Hormara, a sterile district, with a port of same name, is subject to Las. Near Jabl Malan is a tribe called Gujur ; at Garuki, the Sanger tribe ; and at Hormara, in Mekran, with four hundred houses, is a tribe of this name. The Hormara tribe say they came originally from Sind. Persani, west of Hormara, is a small port of two hundred houses.—Findlay. See Baluch istan ; Kalat.