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50 THE BALOCH RACE
the thorny brush, the ground our pillow. My horse is
my white sandals. For my sons you may take the arrows,
for my brethren the broad shield, for my father the widewounding
sword.'
The Gorgezh have also passed away from the country
where this struggle took place, and only a fragment of the
tribe is now found at Thali, near Sibi. The Kalmatis
afterwards held the country, and were succeeded by the
Hasani, who were broken up about seventy years ago by a
combination between the Marrls and Bughtls. Only a
small body of Hasanis now remains as a clan among the
Khetrans. The deserted villages of the Hasanis may still
be seen on the plan of Nesao.
The settlement of the Baloches in Sindh was very
extensive, and perhaps a quarter of the population of that
country claims Baloch descent, but, like those settled in
the Panjab plains, they are more or less assimilated to
their Indian neighbours. The Talpur (properly Talbur)
Amirs who ruled Sindh after the overthrow of the Kalhoras,
in the latter part of the eighteenth century, are believed to
be descended from a branch of the Legharis of Chotl, near
Dera Ghazi Khan, where there is still a Talbur phalli. 1
They seem to have been in a humble position when they
first came to Sindh, nor is the Leghari phalli one of any
importance. The name occurs in a fragment of an old
ballad in a list of servile tribes, said to have been presented
by Mir Chakur to his sister Banarl as a wedding portion,
and set free by her :
' The Kirds, Gabols, Gadahls, the Talburs, and the
Marrls of Kahan, all were Chakur's slaves, and he gave
them as a dowry to Banarl on the day of washing her
head (i.e,, seven days after the wedding) ; but she set them
free, and would not accept the gift in God's name.'
Leech gives another version of this, including a tribe
1 See the interesting account, by Mir Naslr Khan Talpur, of
Haidarabad, in Eastwick's 'Dry Leaves from Young Egypt,' 1851,
Appendix VI. Also General Haig's ' Indus Delta Country,' pp. 121, 122.