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 -  Rev., Jan., 1904, p. 143.)

XXXII., pp. 178-179.

BOLOR.

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Rev., Jan., 1904, P. 143.)

XXXII., pp.

178-179.

BOLOR.

We read in the Tarikh-i-Rashidi of Mirza Haidar (Notes by Ney Elias; translated by E.D. Ross, 1895), p. 135, that Sultan Said Khan, son of Mansur Khan, sent the writer in the year 934 (1528), "with Rashid Sultan, to Balur, which is a country of infidels [Kafiristan], between Badakhshan and Kashmir, where we conducted successfully a holy war [ghazat], and returned victorious, loaded with booty and covered with glory."

Mirza Haidar gives the following description of Bolor (pp. 384-5): "Balur is an infidel country [Kafiristan], and most of its inhabitants are mountaineers. Not one of them has a religion or a creed. Nor is there anything which they [consider it right to] abstain from or to avoid [as impure]; but they do whatever they list, and follow their desires without check or compunction. Baluristan is bounded on the east by the province of Kashgar and Yarkand; on the north by Badakhshan; on the west by Kabul and Lumghan; and on the south by the dependencies of Kashmir. It is four months' journey in circumference. Its whole extent consists of mountains, valleys, and defiles, insomuch that one might almost say that in the whole of Baluristan, not one farsakh of level ground is to be met with. The population is numerous. No village is at peace with another, but there is constant hostility, and fights are continually occurring among them."

From the note to this passage (p. 385) we note that "for some twenty years ago, Mr. E.B. Shaw found that the Kirghiz of the Pamirs called Chitral by the name of Palor.

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