"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الجزء II. ج. ج. لوريمر. ١٩١٥" [‎٢‎٥‎١‎٠] (١٢٦٢/١٠٢٧)

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1882, in defiance of the Convention concluded that year for the sup
pression of the traffic in slaves. It was said that since 1903 the
Persian authorities at Shiraz had exerted the most ingenuity to avoid
carrying- out the stipulations of the Convention, and that strong local
pressure and frequent references to the British Minister at Tehran had
been necessary.
Local history of the slave trade in Persian Makran, 1873-1907.
1884-85. In 1884 or 1885 an Indian Khalasi, who had at some previous time
been a slave but had succeeded in escaping to Karachi, was kidnapped
at Chahbar by his former master and carried off to Parag. The Persian
authorities were addressed on the subject, but with what result does not
appear.
1896. In 1896, as already mentioned in the paragraph on the slave trade in
the ■'Oman Sultanate, a gang of Baltic his on the Batinah coast, who dealt
chiefly in slaves purchased or kidnapped from Makran, were brought
to justice. At the time of its being broken up, the gang in question
had been carrying on its operations with impunity for several years.
1%3. The traffic in slaves from Makran to Arabia again came to notice in
1903, when it was reported that some men of the Jashk district and
some Jadgals of Bahu and Dashtyari were purchasing slaves, from the
inhabitants of Bahu and from Kalat subjects in Dasht, and were selling
them to merchants from the ^Oman coast, who came over to buy. The
principal places of export were then Tank and Wank in the Bir district ;
but slaves were also shipped at Galag and Sadaich. Many of the
slaves exported were Africans, but among them were now some low class
Baluchis who had been sold by petty headmen. Attention was first
drawn to this trade by a sudden influx of fugitive slaves into the free
port of Gwadar, as mentioned further on.
190!. In 1904 the trade, in its new form, was greatly stimulated by the
lawless proceedings of Said Khan, Chief of Gaih, who scorned the
country with an armed retinue, reducing poor Baluchis to slavery and
selling them ; the profits of his misdeeds were mostly invested in rifles
and ammunition. His example was quickly followed by Mir Barkat of
Jashk, who formed a gang for slave-dealing operations and refused to
desist, though frequent remonstrances were addressed to him by Mullas and
influential Baluchis of Jashk. The victims of the traffic were now drawn
not only from the districts already mentioned, but also from the Gaih
and Bint neighbourhoods, and even from Bashakard. The enslavement of
free Muhammadans is contrary to the law of Islam; but Said Khan and
Mir Barkat nevertheless found many imitators on a smaller scale. One
of those was a ruffian named Shai-bin-Sha J ban who at first made his
headquarters at Jashk; and it was estimated that, from this port rJone.
450 slaves were exported to Arabia during the three years ending in 1904,