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and then south for 3 farsakhs over a vile road to Sarasia or Rud-Zard. Just
before reaching this Iliyat village we recrossed the Ab-i-Zard. It is here 20
feet wide and 3 feet deep, and turns several mills. There are some patches
of rice cultivation on its banks.
8 [a). Schindler performed the journey from KaVa-i-Tul to Kalga or Rud-
Zard or Tund-Ab in two stages, i.e.—■
(1) Kal'a-i-Tul to Bagh-i-Malik, 71 miles; road good; direction south;
and
(2) Bagh-i-Malik to Kalga, 11 miles; road very bad; direction west,
i.e., in all he makes the stage to be 18^ miles.
(1) The road crosses the Shakaf-i-Rashta, 3 miles from Bagh- i-Malik.
To its east lies the Ab-i-Jelal, bordering which are several rice fields.
(2) The Bagh-i-Malik valley is fertile and grows excellent rice and
wheat. To the east of the valley oaks cease to clothe the hill sides, and
firewood is most scarce. The village contains 100 families. The ancient
name of Bagh-i-Malik is said to have been KaFa-i-Kamis, and to have been
built by the Kamis Arabs now occupying the vicinity of Ram-Hormuz.
The ruins of Manjinik and Orwa lie in the valley. The inhabitants of
Bagh-i-Malik are descended from the family of Lur-i-Buzurg living about
Karmanshah, i.e., the Zangana. This family has nine branches—the Gar-
rawand (of these 100 families, living southward from Burujird, are united
with the Chahar Lang), Hazarwand, Salman wand, Abbaswand, ''Am wand,
Gulabwand, Taduwi, Al-i-Kurshid (from this family sprung the Kurshidi
Atabegs who ruled Luristan from 1,155 to 1,600), and the Gijwane 1 ,
From Bagh-i-Malik (2,530 feet) to Kalga (1,910 feet) the Zard-Ab or
Tund-Ab flows in a narrow valley for 11 miles and falls 620 feet, or, allowing
for the windings of the stream, about 41 feet in a mile.
The Ab-i-Tund-Ab or Zard-Ab has three sources, i.e., (1) that from KaFa-
i-Tul, the Ab-i-Jelal, (2) the Ab-i-Bagh i-Malik, and (3) the Talk-Ab-Al-i-
Kurshid.
The road keeps to the valley of the Tund-Ab or skirts it, rising to an
elevation of 2,500 feet. It is very difficult for laden animals which have to
be unladen here and there ; it passes the villages of Derweshan (9 families) and
a village of five or six huts of the Garrawand family who here cultivate rice.
The Pul-i-Burida, on the old Isfahan-Shustar road, is passed two miles before
reaching Kalga; this latter part of the road is very stony.
From Mdl-i-Mir to Slim far via Baitawand [Be Rode),
First stage. —De Bode, crossing the Mal-i-Amir plain in a southerly direc
tion for f hour, then turned west-south-west by west for | hour as far as
Shah-Ruben-Ab. On the left bank he found what he considered to be the
remains of the bridge of Jirzad. Close to it are the ruins of Hallagan. The
valley in which the river flowed appeared green and fertile (February).
Thence the road turns first west-north-west and then west.
To the left of Nutergi is the village of Ablah, and near the road a ceme-
tery. ^ # I
Traversing a hilly country and crossing the river Duruo,"^ the road struck
south-west to an encampment of the Tembi tribe, 11 miles from Mal-i-Mir;
the night was bleak and cold.
# Joru-Ab or Joruo j ab is by the common people pronounced au or o, and ds and js are inter-
cliangeable {see note " Transliteration " ; Preface, Fart II).