"الطرق في بلاد فارس. القسم III" [و‎‎٢‎٢‎٥] (٧٣٩/٤٥٤)

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officers , quarters and offices on a very shabby scale.
Just below the bridge the Kashaf Rud, a mere
ditch at this time of the year (November 28th)
joins. On high bank a few hundred yards on
road to Pas Kamar is an old caravansarai, which
should be repaired and held by the Persians as an
outpost. Road to Pas Kamar is perfectly easj',
on right bank of Kashaf Rud, 4 miles from Pui-
i-Khatun. Water and supplies at Pul-i-Khatun.
Pas Kamar has one hundred and thirty families
of Raotis (associated with Jamshedis)—twenty
ploughs. Present Chief of Raotis, Haji Amin
Khan. Raotis famish fifty-five sowars. All the
Jamshedis have been removed from the frontier.
Eaotis migrated from Derawat some generations
ago. Pas Kamar is an important point. From
it one road leads over Pas Kamar range to Zora-
bad and Jam. Another road leads along the Ka
shaf Rud to Akdar Band ; but this at present not
used further than Shurja, being blocked with
jungle and boulders. Shurja is cultivated by the
Raotis. Supplies fairly plentiful. Fuel oi excel
lent quality procurable from neighbouring hills,
principally pistachio and juniper. Water ^plentiful
from Kashaf Rud, and although brackish quite
drinkable. Camping ground extensive and sandy
soil.
This place is also called Kala Muhammad Haji,.
Timuri. There are a few black tents, and some
mud houses. Water plentiful, and fuel procur
able in the vicinity, and from hills. General
direction southerly. First followed Kashaf Rud,
and at 9 a. m . turned up Nari defile. Path quite
an easy gradient, flanked on both (Nari) sides by
high hills covered with pistachio trees. A dry
(at this time) water-course filled with tamarisk
bushes runs down through the defile. At 9^-
reached Nari spring, water bitter. Elevation 1,400
feet aneroid. (Here a path branches off to Di-
rakht-i-Anab in a westerly direction 2 (?) farsakhs
distant with many ups and downs, but fit for
lightly laden camels. A nab has one spring of
sweet water, sufficient for two flocks of sheep (a
flock one thousand or one thousand and five hun
dred). Thence path goes to Kal-i-Farshami (1 far-
sakh) and thence by easy road to Kul-i-Malikabad,
2 farsakhs. Here is a valley and spring not far
from Natu on Mashad-Zorabad route. Kul -i-
Malikabad has about twenty Seistani families;
five ploughs. Near Malikabad, at a distance of
1 farsakh, is Bagh-i-Kashmiri. From Nari spring
there is a steepish ascent up a soft ridge to a