Baluch tribes extend along the lower half of the Dehrajat frontier; they are less warlike, and are more or less migrant and predatory, particularly in the west. In habits they resemble the Iliyat and Kurd. They have dark skins ; live in mud houses, in forts, and in their black felt tents called gedaun, stretched over a tamarisk frame work. An assemblage of gedaun forms a toman or village, inhabited by a khel, and a tribe con sists of a certain number of khel. The headquarters of Baluch tribes, and the majority of the clans men, are in the independent hills beyond the British territory, the boundary line of which runs along the base of the hills ; but a largo number of each tribe also hold lands in the plain, and are British subjects, some of the chiefs also residing there. The Baluch of the plains, for the most part, after annexation, behaved as well-disposed subjects, but the Baluch of the hills continued their old habits of plundering. All the tribes were at feud with each other ; they not only fought in the hills, but they carried their contests to the plains, where they attacked all villages except those belonging to their own tribe. The men of the plains usually resisted the attacks with spirit at the time, but they were not allowed to retaliate afterwards, as they used to do under the Sikh rule. To guard British villages and people from their constant aggression, a strong cordon of military posts was fixed along the base of the Suliman range. The marauding parties were 50, 100, 200, 300, occasionally even 500 strong. They were often mounted, and fled, if hotly pur sued, for 15, 20, and even 30 miles. Many of the villages and much of the cultivation being close ' to the hills and in front of the posts, the plunderers carried off their booty to the hills before the detachment could come up.
Dehra Ismail Khan is a British district lying between lat. and 32° 15' N., and long. 70° 20' and 71° E. On the south it joins Debra GbaziKhan, and the boundary marks the separation of the Pathan and Baluch frontier tribes. The eastern boundary is the river Indus. The general aspect of the country is that of a dry alluvial plain, destitute of all vegetation, and intersected by the ravines of the hill feeders of the Indus. The irrigation canals are small. The area is 3777 square miles. The cultivators are Pathans or Jets. The Multani Pathans have been loyal to the British ; the others are the Gandapur, Mian Khel, Daulat Khcl, and Babar. Pushtu and Panjabi are spoken. Its population comprises Christians, Syud, Moghu], Saddozai, Alizai, 1Vaziri, Pathan, Laghari, Baluch, Bozdar, Kosah, Kasrani.
Dehra Fattah a small town in lat. 31° 7' 9" N., and long. 70° 46' 39" E., is 532 feet above the sea. It is on the right bank of the Indus, and 53 miles south of the capital of the district. The rainfall is very precarious.
Daman-i-Koh is a tract of country stretching along the foot of the mountains west of the Dehrajat, inhabited by Afghans, Jat, and Baluch.
The Mandu Khel is a small peaceable agricul tural tribe to the west of the Dehra Ismail district, numbering 3000 souls. The Multani Pathan tribe are in Multan, Dehra Ismail Khan, and Dehra Ghazi Khan. They are descended from the Abdali, who came in the times of Alamgir and Aurangzeb. They have been friendly with the British.
Gandapur, a tribe who inhabit the Daman of the Dehrajat in the vicinity of Kolachi, Takwara, and Luni. They are peaceable British subjects, in the Debra Ismail Khan district. They numbered 5945 in 1868. The Kolachi division. and town of the Debra Ismail Khan district are occupied by the Gandapur, the Mian Kbel, Babar, and Baluch, along with Syud, Koresh, and Hindus. The Gandapur clan were formerly in Afghanistan, but abandoned it and settled near Kolachi. They are hospitable.
The Kundi is a quiet agricultural tribe of Pathans, in the N.W. corner of the Debra Ismail Khan district. They claim descent from Lodi, the founder of the Lohani tribe, whom they accom panied into the plains. They have about 1000 fighting men.
The Mian Kbel tribe, in the Debra Ismail dis trict, are a section of the Lohani. Their two sections are named Isot Khel and Sein Khel.
Isot or Sot are nomade Pathans on the hills to the west of the Debra Ismail Khan frontier. They are said to be of Kakar origin. They have no towns or villages, and have about 300 fighting men. They remain about the slopes of the Tiri hill in summer, and in winter migrate to Kali wahin, on the western, slopes of the Nara. They have ?our sections.
Khar Sin or Ghar-shin tribe are harmless and inoffensive Syuds, who reside among the Ush tarani on the frontier of the Debra Ismail district, also among the Kakar of Peshin, and among the Murree. They are pastoral and agricultural. They are a branch of the Khar Sin of Uch and Ahmad pur, in the Bahawnlpur territories, with whom they came from Bokhara in the 18th century.
The Hari Pal tribe on the Dehra Ismail frontier, on the borders of Spada- They are fakir, and about 800 in number.
The Kapip are a poor agricultural tribe to the west of Draband on the Debra Ismail frontier. They are peaceable, and sow sorghum and maize, and have fruit-trees.
Zmara, a small tribe of the Debra Ismail frontier. They have the Ushtarani on the east, the Isot on the south, the Shirani on the north, and the Musa Khel on the west.
The Miami tribe are in the Gomal valley, in the Debra Ismail Khan district.
Belot, in lat. 32° 15' 20" N., and long. 71° 11' 51" E., has the shrine of Shah Abdul Wahab. It is in the Dehra Ismail Khan district, on the right bank of the Indus. Two Hindu shrines are near.
The Butani is an Afghan tribe dwelling in the Dehra Ismail Khan district in the hills near the Peyzu pass. They were predatory until they became British subjects.