'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎36v] (77/652)

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The following villages are included in this district:—
Murtl.
Gorai.
Gizan.
Bat.
Girvani-
Girvani, No. 1.
Bat Kuchak-
Ghlstiqan-
Rirhpish.
Askan.
Purkan.
Shir Inza-
Sad Kumak.
Parpugan.
Boroi.
Maindar.
Sarjangan.
Karsochl.
Sor-i-Shuran.
Chah-i-Shuran.
—I could find no trace of the Brahui village mentioned by St. John in 1871-72*
The whole district can turn out 7,000 men, fully armed and equipped.
One Bampusht m<xw=the weight of Rs. 100, as at DIzak and Parom.
Wool is exported to Gwadar and Karachi.
The amount of grain produced is only enough to suffice for the wants of
f the inhabitants.
The latter call themselves Ba chis, but are really of the Purki tribe—
origin unknown. See account of that tribe given in the article on Balu
chis. {Details from Sarddr Fateh Muhammad, and his brother Ydr
Muhammad.)
BAMPUSHT KtJH—
A considerable range of hills in Persian Baluchistan, either within, or
forming the southern boundary of, the district of the same name. (See
above.) These hills, running east and west, are a continuation of the range
which bounds Rakhshan and Panjgur (q.v.) on the south. They are united
to the latter (eastwards) by the Mazampnsht Kuh. Sagarkand and Plm-
piska {q.v.), all part of the same hills. To the west the range (no doubt
here called by a different name) bends north-west, following the general
run of the ranges in this part of the country, and appears to join the ele
vated mass of the Isfidan Kuh, Humand, etc.
The Bampusht range is of some importance in the general topography
of the countrv. as from the Mazampusht Kuh westwards its crest is the
water-shed between the basins of the Mashkid and the Nihing. It is also
considered to form the boundary between Makran, in its geographical
sense, and Dizak. It seems strange it should not have been made the poli
tical boundary also in place of the Nihing, more especially as water-sheds
are commonly used as lines of demarcation in this country, and streams,
along which people live, very rarely.
As the boundary laid down by Goldsmid’s Commission of 1871 now
stands, the district of Bampusht, instead of being bounded on the south by
the line of the Bampusht Kuh, appears to come down to the Nihing stream,
which is here supposed to divide Kalatfrom Persian territory.
The Bampusht Kuh is of considerable elevation. Its summit line is
seldom less than 5,000 feet above sea level, and about 2,000 feet above the
country at its base. Some peaks rise to 7,000 feet * Beyond Pimpiska^
* So Lovett says in his original report, but in his contribution to Eastern Persia he
says the hills are only 5,000 feet high.