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No. 4.
Rampur to Chahbar, via Fanoeh Pass.
Wo. of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distance, in
miles.
Remarks. •
Inter
mediate.
Total.
6
Binth . .
1,400'.
15
116
Road follows along the shingly bed of the Fanoch
river. At 11 miles Dahan, depopulated a few
years ago by cholera, 15 houses only having been
left out of 150. Binth suffered on same occasion,
but has population of between 1,500 and 2,000. Binth is a large village dependent on Geh.
Cultivation and dates. Supplies in fair quantities are obtainable. Water abundant and
good. Maliyat. 1,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. .
From Binth roads run to Jask (travelled by Mr. Floyer) and to Geh, joining our road
fiom Geh to Maluran, 4 miles south-east of the latter village.
7 Kokandab
132
Road still follows the course of the river over
shingly going, crossing narrow stony plateaux.
Small hamlet. No supplies. Water from wells.
Fuel and camel-grazing plentiful.
8
Zangin
15 147 i Road over rough going, following the course of
| the river. Zangin is a small hamlet. No sup
plies. Water from wells. Fuel and camel
grazing.
Gonz . . 16 163 Road leaves the river and runs through Shur hills
crossing a low watershed; difficult going over
rooky tracks and stony plateaux. Merely a halting-
, place by a well, after crossing the hilly zone. No
supplies. Water scant and bad, non-perennial.
10
Kumb
17?
able, from the usual mud holes.
11
Pakag
14?
180?
194*
Road across sandy plain Khaur-i-Goach is
crossed at 12 miles. Kumb is a hamlet of pish
palm huts on the Dasht plain. No cultivation or
dates. No supplies. Water scant and not reli-
Road over undulating ground across the plain.
Nur Mumdi (corruption of Nur Muhammad) is
passed at 8 miles ; here a small amount of supplies
can be obtained ; it is a collection of 12 huts ;
they own sheep and camels, and there is a small amount of cultivated ground. Water from
holes scant. Camel-grazing plentiful. From here branches off the Chahbar-Geh route to
Bampur. Parag is reached at 14 miles ; it is merely a collection of five wretched huts, where
the telegraph line guard resides. Formerly there was a small fishing village on the creek,
1| miles off, where the Kiiam-i-Parag joins the sea. No supplies; water scant and brack
ish, from shallow holes dug in the sandy bed of the river, which is dry except during rains.
There is a salt-pan at the mouth of the creek. Fuel and camel-grazing over plain.
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mouth
Chahbar
(Chabbar).
of which is a small
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212
Road practically follows the shoreway as far as
Tez, crossing the Namak Khaur, 2 miles south
east of Parag, level going all the way. Tez is a
collection of huts in the bed of a dry nala uX the
fort on the top of a low hill. This fort was formerly occupied by
a guard to protect the entrance to Chahbar onwards the road is over a rugged rocky track
crossing low hills which intervene between Tez and Chahbar.
Goldsmid makes it 67 miles from Gonz to Parag, and the total distance to Chahbar 211 miles.