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districts and of Daliki now lies in the high road for
trade into the interior of Persia which passes through
the-r villages. r I hey levy a rich income from tolls
on caravans using this highway. The Khan of
Angali in addition has a strong interest in the tolls
he collects at Shlf from goods transhipped from
Bushire for Shiraz. In this respect his interest runs
counter to that of the Khan of Chahkiitah, for the
more caravan traffic that goes by the land route, the
less toll money comes to the Khan of Angali.
(') 1 lie third category in the coast region is represented
by 1 angistan and Dasht, the latter a most ex
tensive district stretching for many miles across
the mountain chain. Tangistan has always had a
heterogeneous tribal population, turbulent and
warring among themselves, village against village.
It is not very fertile, the date groves are not very
productive, and, though the villages round Gurgk
grow much vegetable produce, the chief income of
the Chiefs lies in the fruit gardens of Khalvia in the
hills and in the Ahram date gardens. Donkey traffic
for Firuzabad and Shiraz is blackmailed to some
extent by the Khan, but his chief source of wealth
has been tire arms traffic. Dashti on the other hand
is a vast grain-growing district with a river flowing
through it. It also possesses extensive date cultiva
tion. Here the Khans have no caravan traffic to
batten on. From being well governed and tranquil,
the district has in the last forty years fallen into
a state of chaos and has become divided under many
petty village headmen, most of whom are at feud
with one another.
Tn a!! eases the Khans resent any interference likely to im
pair their sole control in their districts or over their tribesmen
The methods adopted however differ. The Khans of Haiat
Baud, Rud Hilleh and Liravi are members of one family and
work in close co operation and consultation under the leader
ship of Haider Khan of Ha at Baud, who resides at Bandar Rig,
with the Khans of Angali also allied by marriage and largely
under their influence. Haider Khan and his relatives make
a point of paying regularly the revenue due by their districts
to the Pemian Government, and of Leaping very good order