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A GUDDRA.

The Guddras, who are called Guddon by Carless, and Guddo by Burton, are not Belochees, but an Arabian tribe which settled in Lus probably in the first period of the Mahomedan occupation of Sind and Mekran. There are 600 of them among the military retainers of the Jam, and the Photograph gives a fine specimen of the tribe. Commander Carless mentions that their chief, Arab Oosmananee, is from  an Arab stock, and in him and his relatives the Arab form and features are strongly marked. The Guddras as a body have much the same characteristics as other tribes of Semma origin, such as Jokyas, Noomryas, Jutts, &c.; on the other hand, Captain Burton is of opinion that the Guddra is the offspring of a Sindee Moslem father, and a Siddeeanee, or African woman; but the pure Arab origin is perhaps the most probable.
The subject of the Photograph is dressed in a blue robe of coarse cotton cloth, with a white turban, whose heavy folds hanging over his left shoulder with heavy masses of hair, give him a strangely wild and remarkable appearance. His large waistband is of white cotton cloth. His height was five feet seven inches.