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 KHADIR BUKHSH. (292)

HE Khosas are numbered by General Jacob among the border tribes of Sind, but they are insignificant in power, and the tribe is much scattered. He reports on them as follows:—

"The Khosas are a very numerous Beloch tribe, but scattered all over the country from Nuggur Parkur to Dadur, The men are plunderers, cultivators, soldiers, or shepherds, according to circumstances. There are several villages of this tribe on the Sind border.

"They have few peculiarities to distinguish them from the other tribes of Sind and Kutchee, but are said to have been originally Abyssinians, and some have derived their name from 'Cush,' but of this nothing certain, or even probable, can be discovered. The number of the tribe on the Sind border now amounts to about 300 adult males."

The subject of the Photograph is a landholder with a small estate; a person of no great consequence, but a quiet and respectable member of his tribe. He wears a handsome chintz upper coat, or chogha, and a large white turban of muslin, instead of the cap common to Sind.