The effect that Badru’d-din demanded

The legend is to the effect that Badru’d-din demanded a bride from each of the

forty-four

bolaks of the Baloches. They pretended to agree, but sent him forty-four

boys dressed as girls, and themselves marched out of the country to avoid his
vengeance when the deception was discovered. He, however, sent the boys back
to their families, but pursued the tribes into Kech-Makran, and was defeated by
them there. In Makran the Baloches fought against a ruler named Harm or Harun,
probably an Arab of the coast, as the place where the fight took place is named
Harin-bandar, or the port of Harun. Another name in the ballads is Jagin, which
is a place on the coast of Makran, not far from Jask. The original tribes of Makran
seem to have been mainly Jatts, and at the time of the Arab conquest they are

frequently alluded to under the name of Zutt; and no doubt some Arab

settlements had been made then, as now, on the coast. That some of these tribes
were destroyed and others absorbed and assimilated by the Baloch invaders is
extremely probable, but we are without any information as to what extent this
took place.