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36 THE BALOCH RACE<br />
families, but pursued the tribes into Kech-Makran, and was<br />
defeated by them there. In Makran the Baloches fought<br />
against a ruler named Harm or Harun, probably an Arab<br />
of the coast, as the place where the fight took place is<br />
named Harm-bandar, or the port of Harun. Another<br />
name in the ballads is Jagin, which is a place on the<br />
coast of Makran, not far from Jask. The original tribes<br />
of Makran seem to have been mainly Jatts, and at the time<br />
of the Arab conquest they are frequently alluded to under<br />
the name of Zutt ; and no doubt some Arab settlements<br />
had been made then, as now, on the coast. That some<br />
of these tribes were destroyed and others absorbed and<br />
assimilated by the Baloch invaders is extremely probable,<br />
but we are without any information as to what extent this<br />
took place. But the legendary account refers the origin<br />
of the main divisions of the Baloch race to this period.<br />
Mir Jalal Khan, son of Jland, is said to have been ruler<br />
over all the Baloches. He left four sons, named Kind,<br />
Lashar, Hot, and Korai, and a daughter named Jato, who<br />
was married to his nephew Murad. These five are the<br />
eponymous founders of the five great divisions of the race,<br />
the Kinds, Lasharis, Hots, Korais, and Jatois. There are,<br />
however, some tribes which cannot be brought within any<br />
of these divisions, and accordingly we find ancestors duly<br />
provided for them in some genealogies. Two more sons<br />
are added to the list— All and Bulo. From Bulo are<br />
descended the Buled/us, and from All's two sons, Ghazan<br />
and f<br />
Umar, are derived the Ghazani Marrls and the<br />
'Umaranis (now scattered among several tribes). I may<br />
here note that the genealogies given in the * Tuhfatu'l-<br />
Kiram 1 seem to be apocryphal, and are not in accordance<br />
with Baloch tradition. It is there asserted that Jalalu'd-<br />
dln was one of fifty brothers, and that he received one-half<br />
of the inheritance, the rest taking half between them, and<br />
1 See E. D., i. 336. This is the tradition alluded to by Colonel<br />
Mockler (J". A. S. B., 1895, par. i., p. 34). The ' Tuhfatu'l-Kiram ' is<br />
a late eighteenth-century compilation.
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