'ROUTES IN PERSIA, Section 1.' [‎24r] (52/416)

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No. 4.
Bampur to Chahbar via Fanoch Pass.
Authority .— Goldsmid, Brazier-Creagh, {mostly from native, inf ormation),
1893-94.
No. of
stage,
Names of stages.
Distance, in
miles.
Rbmabks.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
1
Kasimabad
9
9
Water good from Bampur river or wells. Dates,
grain, etc., generally procurable.
Kasimabad, a small Baluch village, with a fort.
Huts of sun-dried bricks, dud cnieny oi mua, wn,u lamans* wcoa « ^
iungle produce. Inhabitants poor, squalid and ill-clothed, many dark complexioned and of a
Sidi or slave caste of features and general appearance. Koad amid scattered jungle and occa
sional cultivation ; somewhat heavy from sand.
Balcchan Chah 27 36 Direction south-west. Water from wells ; supply
uncertain. Sheep procurable from nomads, but
provisions generally precarious. Halting-place
reached after passing the Gwarpusht sand hills,
the village of Gwarpusht being at some distance to the left, on the road to the Cham pass.
At the sandhills are trees and water. At Baluchan Chah ground harder, and wild vegetation
somewhat more abundant, but the whole character of the country sterile. Could not trace
the well supposed to give a name to the locality, but conclude that such are dug here and
there according to circumstances, and the camping-ground changed accordingly.
3
Mask HutaK,
Maskotct.*
or
26
62
Direction south-south-west. Water from bed of
river precarious. Dates abundant; forage scarce.
A poor village with few inhabitants ; but with
traces of better days. It is situated near a date
orove on the south bank of a large, broad, and (at time passed) dry ravine. Besides the usual
Baluch huts, it has the ordinary mud fort and a second one in ruins. Cause of abandonment
stated to be the visitation of small-pox, and more recently cholera. Mention of the place
not found in reports of previous travellers, accounted for by its position being away from
the routes to the better known passes.
Direction south-south-west. Water from Aimini
river good ; sheep, dates, and grain procurable.
Forage precarious. A comparatively large and
important Baluch village in the plains, north of
the Makran hills, and close to a pass bearing the name, which enters Makran from the
Persian district of Bampur. Fort in ruins, and seemingly uninhabited. About 100 houses,
and probably 500 inhabitants, most of whom are said to be slaves.
The Baluchis of the plains traversed between this and Kasimabad are Lasharis. Road
from Maskotu hard and stony, or sandy and gravelly, intersected with beds of streams and
small ravines, and studded here and there with low black rocks and hillocks. At about 1\
miles met by road from Kalany.ao. Aimini river rises in the plains after rain, and winds
into the Fanoch pass, thence finding its way to the sea, under a new name, at Kalig in west
Makran.
4
Fanoch* .
25
87
*
Saet-Ab
14
101
Road follows along the Fanoch gorge over difficult
going (impassable in wet weather) for 8 miles,
onwards it is better going. No village or sup
plies, merely a halting-place by pools, which are
more or less contaminated by kafilas. Good water can be obtained from a spring above
these pools. Fuel abundant and good camel-grazing along the hill sides.
* For roadi from Mask Hutan to Ispaka and from Fanoch to Tutan, Pip, Gasman and Gek tvi<£ Ichan and
Maluran), see No. 4, A. B, C. D. E. F.