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enumerated in proper sequence from east to west seems to favour such an assumption, and so also
does in a sense the conclusion of the list with the name of the Helmand. But I am unable to support
this suggestion by any direct evidence drawn from modern names of those streams, and must leave
the question for future local investigation.¹¹

Before concluding the account of what I observed during my stay near the eastern shore of the Tribe of
Hāmūn, I may briefly refer to the interest presented by the small quasi-amphibious tribe of the Sayād fisher-
Sayād or fisher-folk with whom I came in contact there. There are strong reasons, both historical folk.
and traditional, justifying the belief that the present settled population of Sīstān is composed of very
varied racial elements, for the most part brought there by successive waves of conquest and immigra-
tion.¹² The element which is likely to have preserved most of its original racial character unmixed
is the Sayād tribe, whom their peculiar and distinctly primitive mode of life as fishers and hunters
by the reed-covered lagoons of the Hāmūn keeps widely separated from the agricultural population.
As their livelihood obliges them to follow the seasonal fluctuations of the lake their life is bound
to be essentially nomadic. This fact is strikingly reflected by the temporary character of the reed
huts (Fig. 452) which shelter them in their changing habitats. The fact that distinct sections
of the lake and marshes are apportioned by tribal custom to particular family groups among them
is, of course, also in keeping with the peculiar conditions of their nomadic existence.¹³

It is likewise easy to understand that these conditions should have developed in the Sayāds Anthropo-
a very marked exclusiveness as regards interrelation with their settled neighbours, as well as a metrical
curious mixture of shyness and independence. Of the latter traits I had a characteristic experience record of
on a later occasion, when I managed, not without difficulty, to secure the anthropometrical data Sayāds.
relating to this tribe analysed in Mr. Joyce's Appendix C. They were obtained from Sayāds who
were camping at the time not far from the route leading across the 'Naizār' towards Bandān
(Fig. 454).¹⁴ Comparison of these with the more abundant data that I obtained from Sīstānīs
and Balūch levies enlisted in Sīstān makes it appear far more probable that the Sayāds represent
the remains of a submerged aboriginal population, as suggested by Mr. Joyce, than that they are
of Arab descent, as has been conjectured elsewhere.

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