The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume IX, No. 4 [‎204r] (78/172)

THE SOUTHERN BORDERLANDS OF AFGHANISTAN.
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medical officer; and Lieut. R. A. E. Benn came as intelligence officer.
We had an escort of 150 infantry and 60 cavalry. Our whole party,
including escort, survey party, office establishment, and tribal chiefs
and followers, amounted to about 1000 men and 600 animals, i.e. camels,
horses, and ponies. The Afghan commissioner, who subsequently joined
us, brought an escort and camp following amounting to much the same
number as ours. The Afghan commissioner was Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Gul Mahommad
Khan, a near relation of the Amir of Afghanistan.
Domandi deserves a few words of mention. Here the Gomal and
Kundar rivers meet and form one stream under the name of the Gomal,
K HO R ASS AN PLAINS, LOOKING TOWARDS DOCHINA AND KATAWAZ.
which, some 80 miles below Domandi, alter cutting its way through
narrow gorges through the Suleiman range, issues out on to the Derajat
plains of the Punjab. The Gomal has for many ages been a great trade
route between Afghanistan and India. The Ghilzai and Lohani tribes,
both of whom are commonly known under the name of Powiudahs, come
down in their thousands year by year in the autumn from the highlands
of Afghanistan by this route to India, bringing with them their women
and children, and huge herds of camels, sheep, and goats. Over 70,000
camels are sometimes known to be thus brought down in one season.
The various tribes which compose the great Ghilzai and Lohani clans,
i.e. the Suleiman Khels, Nasirs, Kharotis, Mian Khels, and others, after
the manner of Afghan tribes, are mostly at feud one with another, and
so they find it more convenient to avoid each other on their march up