The Sind fishermen float down the Indus resting upon a gourd or hollow earthen pot, while the net is let down beneath them ; as a hilsa fish ascends up the muddy and rapid stream, it strikes against the dependent net, which is made to con tract like a purse by means of a string that the fisherman holds in his hand.—Day. • Migration of Races.—Besides the instances of the Samaritans and Jews transplanted under the Assyrians and Babylonians, history shows the deportation of whole tribes, expressly termed cerauzralfrol by Herodotus. The Pmonians were removed to Phrygia, the Barcmans from Africa to Bactria, the Milesians to Ampe near the Tigris, Egyptians to Susa, Eretrians from Eubcea to Ardericca and to Gordeyn, and Antiochiaus to Mahuza.
Pastoral nomade tribes compose the great bulk of the inhabitants of Turkish Arabia, of Persia, Baluchistan, and they migrate twice a year to their summer and winter pastures.
Muhammad Taghalaq during his reign (A.% 1325 to 1351) removed the whole of the inhabit ants of Dehli to Deogiri, to which he gave the name it still retains of Dowlatabad. After this, the people were twice permitted to return to Dehli, and twice compelled, on pain of death, to leave it. These movements were attended with ruin and distress to thousands, but one of them in particular was made during a famine, and caused a prodigious loss of life.
• When Ahmad, the grandson of the apostate Jaka, better known in history under his Muham madan name of Wujeh-ul-Mulk, determined to immortalize himself by a new capital, the site he chose was the residence of a Bhil community, whose marauding exploits were the terror of the country. In order to commemorate its extirpation, he disregarded its local disadvantages, and the city rose upon an nuinteresting, unhealthy, low flat, on the banks of the Sabarmati. Not content with transporting the materials of Chandravati, he resolved that its soul as well as body should migrate, that the population should follow the spoils of the temples and the dwellings. Another general migration was once attempted by Mahmud, the Ghilji, who resolved that Dehli should take root on the Viudya Hills, but "Wanda° and Ahmad abad shared the like fate..
Bokhara has a considerable number of Persians, and Persian captives were formerly brought to it in small parties. But the majority of this race were transplanted from Mery in the reign of Amir Said, when that city fell under his sway.
With a view of weakening it, he ordered 40,000 families to be transported from Mery to the neighbourhood of Samarcand. They are easily distinguished by their regular features and their bushy black hair.
When Nadir Shall overran Herat and Kandahar, he is said to have deported 18,000 Ghilzai with their families to Teheran, and to have distributed the lands of Kandahar amongst his Persian followers.
Shah Abbas established in Andkhui the Persian tribe of Afshar, who form three-fourths of . the population.
After the British mission had left Herat, the vizir Yar Muhammad pressed Ibrahim Khan of Gour, who had 7000 families of Taemuni under his rule, and, after having completely devastated the country which they occupied, Yar Muhammad removed them to Herat, where he establishee some in the city and the remainder in the suburb. Subsequently to this, in the beginning of 181 when Yar Muhammad marched with his the direction of the Murghab, on the bar are which river some Hazara Zeidnat were em' have they decamped into the Persian rties Asof-ud-Dowla gave them the village of Karez on the frontier of Herat. After the removal of Asof-ud-Dowla, however, at the close of 1816, Yar Muhammad marched against the small Uzbak khanates in the north of Khorasan, and attacked and defeated the Hazara chief Karim Dad Khan, in the open country of Killah-nun. Yar Muham mad encamped upon the field of battle, and in the space of eight days collected 10,000 families of the Hamra Zeidnat, whom he removed from their native soil to that part of the district of Herat reaching from Obeli to Golan, where he settled them on the banks of the Hari-Rud. By these forced migrations of the Taernuni and Hazara, the Herat principality became more populous than it had been previously to the siege of Herat in 1838, and Yar Muhammad obtained the further advantage of keeping under his eye the most turbulent inhabitants of his dominions. He made excellent soldiers of these Eimak, and by their amalgamation with the Afghans it became almost impossible for the former to betray him.
Baron de Bode met an Iliyat tribe belonging to a Lur stem, which had been transplanted into Fars from Luristan Kuchuk by .Aga Muhammad Khan, uncle of Fat'h Ali Khan. After his death many returned to their prior encampments in the Zagros chain.