'Memorandum by the Rev. G. P. Badger on the Pretensions of Persia in Beloochistan and Mekran, drawn up with especial reference to her Claim to Gwadur and Charbar' [‎9v] (18/20)

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APPENDIX.
A. The Diaries which I had the honour of submitting from Mekran last year not having
been printed with my General Report on the subject, I have appended the following extract
on the district of Urboo from the week ending 30th January 1862 :—
“ Pottinger has placed in his-map districts termed Koolaj and Urboo; I can trace
nothing of the last, but Koolaj may be defined as the cultivated patches between the Shadi-
khore on the east and Sir Dusht on the west. There is no town known as Koolaj, but there are
the following “abadees or settlements:”—
O n the sea side of the Hills :
Chukkoolee.
Koonbee.
Shuttangee.
Kundasole.
Mahomedi Bui.
Kuppur.
B. In this view Major Gi'teen’s theory that
more than ever tenable.
On the inland side:
Sir Dusht.
Nobur.
Kulluk.
Chilleree.
Beylar.
Barn.
Nutlet.
Bandaloo.
Gwundi Nigoor.
“Gressia” is the ancient Gedrosia appears
C. One more quotation from my Diaries will throw light on this point:
“ A guide, called in by Rahmut Oollah, informs me that Ormara was formerly in the
Khan's territory, the Jam's boundary extending no further westward than Harrian in the
Hinglaj mountains. When Mehrab Khan (he must mean the old Nusseer) was on the
musnud, he had to do battle with Jam Lulloo, the Gitchkee Chief of Kedje. Jam Meer
Khan of Beyla helped the Khan valiantly. Peace was made, and the combatants agreed to
divide henceforward, in equal shares, the Kedje revenues. In compensation for the blood
shed by the Beyla Chieftain during the fight, his territory was extended westward to beyond
Ormara.” J
D, From Captain Grant’s Journal of a route through the western ports of Mekran in
Yol. Y, (1837) of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, the following is an extract:
18th April 1809.—Sadeich, a village with palms and water; at 14 miles, a nulla; at
17 miles, Malik Chadig, a high mound of stones marking the boundary of Mekran. “ Here
the territory of Gaik ends, and that of Jask commences.”
This Malik Chadig is, no doubt, the Chedar Malik of Gul Mahomed.
(Signed) F. J. Goldsmid, Lieutenant-Colonel,
On special duty.
MEMORANDUM ON WESTERN MEKRAN.
To define Mekran Proper, or the Mekran of Nussir Khan, a very rough outline of
Beloochistan, showing the more important localities, will be useful. In the first place, we cut
E t0 F off > on the ©astern side, Khelat, Kharan, and Bus Bela •
and, on the west, the Kohistan, Bushkurd, and the portions
C to D. of the sea coast to Chedar and Jask farmed by the Imaum
of Muscat from the Persian Government.
A line, A. B., is then drawn to divide the eastern from the western portion It is an
imaginary line of frontier commencing at the sea coast with the Dusht Khor and extending
to the northern desert bordering on Seistan. We have to do with the western division only.
The extreme west, or from the line C. D. to the Persian frontier, appears to
Mekran than the Klielat section on the east, and for the following reasons ■
me no more
Pottmger considers the Kohistan as a fourth division of Beloochistan, separate from
Mekran, owing to its distinct population. He admits that the Bushkurd district is looked
upon by the natives as part of the Kohistan, the Kurds who inhabit it never beino- called
Mekranis; and the late Captain Urant, who travelled from Gwettur to Bunpoor and from
Choubar to Bunder Abbass, talks of the _ eight passes into Mekran, between £ ‘ Mersab and
I cannot trace these places. Khelat-i- Sewa, of which one is at “ Hechan;'' as well as of
-tt- -i • , . w ,,, , T the boundary to seaward at Mullik Chadig (Chedar) Now
Hechan is shown m Wyld’s Map m long. 60° 20, and Chedar is about 58° 40