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The Adamani section of the Kasrani is settled at Jok Budhu in the D hra Ghazi Khan district. They are now peaceab7 .

Gurchani, a Baluca tribe who inhabit the Jampur division of the Dehra Ghazi district near Harand. They have twelve sections, with about 3938 souls, and 1312 fighting men. They gave much trouble since annexation.

Dreabuk, a Baluch tribe of Dehra Ghazi Khan. Their divisions are Kirmani, Mingwani, Gondfaz, Sargani, Arabani, Jaskani.

Nahar, a tribe who live partly round Harand in the Ghazni district, and partly round Nahar ha Kot in the Khetran hills. They say they came from Afghanistan.

Of the other Baluch tribes in the Debra Ghazi Khan district, a mere mention will suffice. They are the Amdani, Chandia, Giskoria, Ghoramani, Gopang, Hut or Both, Laskani, Mallcanl, and Magni. Beyond the Debra Ghazi Khan border arc the Pathan tribes Khastai and Luni. The Khastai are little numerous, are peaceful and quiet ; they are agricultural and pastoral.

The Luni speak a mixture of Pushtu and Baluch, and have 1200 men. The Chum, a long range of hills, produces a valuable coal, also sulphur. Their

neighbours on the north are the Kakar and the Musa Khel, on the south are Murree and Tarin, with Khetran on the east.—Aitclieson's Treaties; Asiatic Researches ; Bellew ; Burnes' Cabool ; Burton's Scinde ; Cale. Rev.; Campbell's Eth. of India; Chesney, Euphrates Expedition; Chronicles of Kashmir; Collett's High Asia, Bokhara, and Baluchistan; Cunningham's Sikhs; De Bode's Tr.; Elphinstone's Caubul; •errier's Travels; Fosberry, in fours. Eth. Soc.; Mist, of Afghans; Latham's Ethnology ; Leach, Vocabulary ; MacGregor's High Asia and IV. IV. Frontier; Masson's Journeys ; Medley's Year's Campaigning; Mohun Lai' s Travels ; Moorcroft's Travels; Peschel's Races of Man ; Panjab Frontier, by an Official; Panjab Report, in Records Gov. of India ; Pottinger's Beluchistan ; Prinsep's Antiquities by Thomas; Raverty's Afghan Language ; Rennell's Memoirs; Taylor and Wat son's People of India ; Thomson's Travels ; Tod's Rajasthan ; Townsend's Outram and Havelock; Vigne, a Personal Narrative; Wood's Lake Aral ; Yule's Cathay ; Census of 1881.

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