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NOTES ON MEKEAN.
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commonly accepted account at Gwadur ; according to it, the grant was
made to Ahmed during the life-time of his father, and if that be true,
it might be an important point, if it was' at all necessary to investigate
the rights of the case. On the death of his father Syud Ahmed, then,
it is said, that Sultan setting out from Gwadur succeeded in establishing
his authority at Muscat. Thence he despatched a Governor to hold
Gwadur for him, and retained undisturbed possession of it during his
life-time.
Soon after Sultan bin Ahmed’s death, his son Saeed, being still young,
the Beloochees assembled under Meer D os tun, the Boleidee Chief of
Sirbaz, and re-possessed themselves of Gwadur, which remained a few
years in their possession. A force sent from Muscat re-gained it,
since when Gwadur has been uninterruptedly in the possession of the
Muscat State. Its right has, however, been by no means unchallenged.
Some thirty or forty years since Sheik Kasim Gaitchkee, of Kej, ad
vanced against Gwadur and succeeded in obtaining payment of a share
of revenue during two years. Again, some fifteen years ago, Faqueer
Mahomed, Naib of Kej, besieged the place with 3,000 men. On
receiving a sum of money, he retired. Another expedition was lately
organized, but abandoned. The Arab Governors of Gwadur have the
title of Wall. Their authority over the Beloochees is but slight, and
they have to put up with a good deal of insolence. A former Wali,
who endeavoured to assert his authority over some people of the Bind
tribe, was murdered by a party of them. Some warfare ensued between
the Muscat Government and the Rinds, and the latter, on one occasion*
appeared before Gwadur in considerable force.
IF. (C Ruhana MeTcran”
comprises the provinces to the westward of Kej. The epithet indi
cates that this part of Mekran is watered by streams. It might also be
described as “Persian Mekran,” as, with the exception of a portion of
sea coast about Charbar, the whole of this division of Mekran is now
paying tribute to Persia. The chief provinces, when this was part of
independent Mekran, were Bunpoor, Dizak, Sirbaz, Gaih, and Kussur-
kund. The information at hand respecting them is too slight to admit
of more than a brief allusion to each separately.
Bunpoor is the western province. Originally a province of what
B ^ has been called Federal Mekran, it probably
P early assumed a separate independence, and