The Bulus live on the tableland

       

‘The Bulus live on the tableland of the Qufs Mountains, and no one else enters
these mountains; they have cattle and tents like the Beduin, and the routes
through their country are not unsafe.’ ‘The Qufs it says, ‘are believed to be of
Arab descent, and live under their own chiefs.’ Further south, again, lives
another race, apparently distinct from both Koch and Baloch. According to the
Persian version they inhabit the mountains near Hurmuz, and are robbers, said
to be Arabs by origin; while in the Arabic version we read: ‘The inhabitants of
the Qaran or Barfen

1 Mountains were Zoroastrians during the rule of the Amawi

Khalifas they would not submit, and were more cunning than the inhabitants of
the Qufs Mountains. They were converted under the rule of the ‘Abbasi
Khalifas.’ This race is evidently the Ahwas or Hawas of Idrisi. The Persian
version adds that Qufs in Arabic is the same as Koch in Persian, and that these
two peoples—one in the mountains and the other in the desert—are commonly
spoken of jointly as Koch and Baloch. Both versions agree in describing the
Baloch as better behaved than their neighbours, and as not infesting the roads;
but it is impossible to accept this statement as fact. It is perhaps due to the
accidental use of a negative by a copyist, and one authority has probably
reproduced it from another without question.