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Pottinger racconta nel "Travels In Beloochistan And Sinde" ciò che gli riferisce la sua guida Moorad prima di inoltrarsi nel villaggio: “he suggested that I should remain under the shade of some date trees, whilst he rode on to apprize the chief of my coming. […] Moorad returned in a short space to tell me that Meer Khodadad (as he entitled the Sirdar) had desired I would instantly adopt the name and character of a Peerzaduh [un fervente relisioso], otherwise he could not be responsible for my safety even in his own house. You are no longer, added Moorad, to consider yourself in the Khan’s [di Kelat] territories, or to calculate on the same good order and security that you saw existing there; we are now in Mukran, where every individual is a robber by caste, and where they do not hesitate to plunder brothers and neighbours. Your’s is the very worst name that you can henceforward travel under, and it would be an useless attempt to try to persuade the people, that a merchant’s servant was not possessed of property, or at least the means of obtaining it.”.

Del libro Voyages Dans Le Beloutchistan Et Le Sindhy si trovano alcune edizioni anche su Amazon, sono delle riproduzioni del 1923 del testo originale di Pottinger del 1816, con delle imperfezioni dovute alla scannerizzazione di pagine molto vecchie e un po’ rovinate.

Sulla provincia del Mukran/Mekran, il “Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India North-West” dice: “All the knowledge concerning this wild and barbarous country possessed by Europeans is derived from Pottinger and his companion, Christie, and from Grant, who preceded the former two in the career of discovery, having passed through the country the year before their visit.”

Nel 2010 il “Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India North West” è stato ristampato dalla British Library ed è ora facilmente acquistabile anche su Amazon.
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