1. The Sulaimani Baloches;

These groups are separated from each other by a compact block of Brahoi tribes,

which occupy the country around Kilat. These Brahois are generally classed
under two heads — as Jahlawans, or Lowlanders, and Sarawans, or
Highlanders.

1 Although some Baloch tribes are occasionally included, it may be

said that, on the whole, the Jahlawans and Sarawans are Brahois, and make use
of the Brahoi or Kirdgali language, while both groups of Baloches, the Sulaimani
to the north-east, and the Mekrani to the south-west and west, speak the Balochi
language in distinct but mutually intellgible dialects.

The Baloches found throughout Sind and the Panjab are an extension, by
conquest and colonization, of the Sulaimani Baloches, and are more or less
assimilated by their Indian neighbours, while those of Sistan must be classed
rather with the Mekrani tribes. The tribal organization in Mekran and Sistan,
with which I have no personal acquaintance, seems from all accounts to be much
the same as that still prevailing among the tribes of the Sulaiman Mountains.
Many of the same tribal names, such as Rind, Hot, Lashari, Maghassi, Buledhi,
are found in both tracts, but the notes which here follow apply primarily to the
north-eastern or Sulaimani tribes only.