Mekran

In Arabia, India, Persia, and Turkey, they are used only as beasts of burden; and in Mekran, and among the Belooches, for riding, on their distant marauding expeditions.

Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

It seemed likely that he had now reached what is known as the Mekran coast, and he remembered the ill reputation it bore with the officers of British ships who had seen service in these waters.

Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang

-- E.] [Footnote 404: Gedrosia the ancient name of that province of Persia on the Indian Ocean between the mouth of the Persian Gulf and the Indus, now called Mekran or Makran.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

After a couple of days, when I'd got the old Urdu bat rolling familiarly off my palate again, I even browned up and put on a puggaree* (* Turban.) and coat and pyjamys, and loafed about the Bund bazaar, letting on I was a Mekran coast trader, and listening to the clack.

Fiancée 2010

After a couple of days, when I'd got the old Urdu bat rolling familiarly off my palate again, I even browned up and put on a puggaree* (* Turban.) and coat and pyjamys, and loafed about the Bund bazaar, letting on I was a Mekran coast trader, and listening to the clack.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

After a couple of days, when I'd got the old Urdu bat rolling familiarly off my palate again, I even browned up and put on a puggaree* (* Turban.) and coat and pyjamys, and loafed about the Bund bazaar, letting on I was a Mekran coast trader, and listening to the clack.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

Here, as in El Matra, you find Banyans from India, Beluchi from the Mekran coast, negroes from Zanzibar,

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

Most of these are Beluchi from the Mekran coast, and Africans from the neighbourhood of Zanzibar.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

The accounts of the successful opening of this line tell of the astonishment of the savage Beloochees and Arabs along the Mekran coast at the marvel of a blue spark flashing for the Sahib to the Indus and back again in less time than it takes to smoke a hookah.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

Similar statistics relating to Lingah, in the same year, show -- Otto: 400 to Arab coast of Persian Gulf, and Bahrein; and 250 to Persian coast and Mekran.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various