
Number 5 in a set of 25 cigarette cards entitled 'Picturesque People of the Empire' issued by Ogden's branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd. There is a picture on one side with an inscription reading 'Baluchi', and a description on the other side. The text on the reverse reads: 'The land of Baluchistan, which occupies the extreme western corner of our Indian Empire, has three main divisions; British Baluchistan proper, with an area of about 9,096 square miles; Agency Territories, acquired by lease and administered by British officers, area about 45,132 square miles; and the native state of Kalat and Las Bela, nominally under the Khan of Kalat. The typical Baluchi or Baluch is square and wiry in build, an expert horse-man and a first-rate fighting man, but a poor husbandman, for he looks upon manual labour as degrading.'