Burnes, Alexander: Travels into Bokhara: containing the narrative of a voyage on the Indus from the sea to Lahore, ... and an account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia ; performed by order of the supreme government of India, in the years 1831, 32, and 33 (Band 1) (London, 1835)

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MEMOIR OF THE INDUS.

CHAP. IX.

the Belooche custom, for the various tribes are no-
thing more than descendants of some person of note.
The chief place of the Boordees is Duree, but they
have no large towns. The whole " Oolooss," or
tribe, is rated at 10,000 fighting men, and, till their
chiefs were taken into the service of the Ameers,
they were constantly marauding : petty robberies are
yet committed. Their language is a corrupted Per-
sian ; of the other tribes, the Juttooees, Moozarees,
Boogtees, and Kulphurs, with many more, they dif-
fer from the Boordees only in name. The Jut-
tooees are to be found in Boordgah : the Moozarees,
whose chief town is Rozan, extend as far as Dera
Ghazee Khan, but their power is now broken, though
they plundered in former times the armies of Ca-
bool. The Kulphurs and Boogtees occupy the hills
called Gendaree, which commence below the latitude
of Mittun, and run parallel with the Indus.