text:  from the Pittee or western mouth of the Indus and Sonmeani lying in a deep bay in the territory of Lus between forty and fifty miles further in the same direction are the only harbours of import in the long sea-coast of Beloochistan; and the possession of them gives the British the undivided command of a trade which in spite of the late disasters already promises to become considerable; while the interposition of the now friendly state of Khelat[37] between the coast and the perturbed tribes of Affghanistan will secure the merchandise landed here a free passage into the interior