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No. 17B.
to Saidabad, via Darab.
Dicianck, in
MILKS.
No. of
stage.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Rsuabzs,
3
Chashma-i-
Maevaei.
12
58$
Rough road over a pass—vines and figs grown.
Water plentiful at stage.
4
Tal Halal
5,200'.
21$
80
Across hills to Chashma Aohog at 12 miles, with
running stream at hand. From 17 miles road
level. Vide Route No. 62, stage 17.
5
Ainobegal
15
95
Level road throughout. This is on the borders
of Karman district. Two wells of brackish water.
6
Chashma-i-Mae-
MAB.
15
110
At 7 miles a small supply of water from welfis.
At halting place only two wells of moderate
water.
7
Saidabad
5,370'.
12
122
Level road through numerous villages.
N.B .—The above distances appear to be understated by about 25 per cent., the total
distance from point to point on the map is about 167 miles.
No. 17C.
Mashish [stage 10, main route) to God Ahmar.
Authority .— Sykes, April, 1894.
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Distance, in
milks.
No. of
Btage.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Bemabks.
1
Tajabad .
7,150.'
15$
15$
For two miles cultivation and soft road, which
changed at 3 miles to the hardest gravel, for half
a mile. Numerous villages on both sides of road.
At 5$ miles cross dry nala with salt and tamarisk.
At 6 miles the track crosses the main Bandar Abbas-Yazd road close to a spring of sweet water.
This is the road by which the cotton is sent down from Bahramabad to the sea. Continue
S. 8. E. shortly after, ascend through cultivation, the road suddenly springing up 40 at a
very steep angle, the top being crowned by a ruined fort, Gerunge. This bit is too narrow
for wheels. A stream runs down to village of Gerunge below. Road now open and very
firm with small hamlets to south. At 9| miles Rashidabad and Dabiran J mile and 1 mile
south. At 10 miles Deh Kossah to the south. At 13 miles turn downhill to Mianuk, a
small piece of cultivation, a good stream and a ruined fort, with a few i/iat tents. Quit
the Saidabad road at 14 miles and cross river, with a broad belt of lofty tamarisk, which
flows into Ab-i-Lalazar.
2
Deh Khana
7,590.'
35
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with higher hills visible behind.
Start west over a low range of hills, then across
an open plain in the direction of a white hill.
At 1 mile hamlet of Karimabad half a mile to
the north. To north low hills a few miles off,
- . . . At 7 miles strike a large dry nula draining south, and,
alter crossing it, at 8^ miles Lasker | mile left; good water, seven or eight hovels.
At nine miles Lokuh two miles to the south, lying in an angle formed by hills which
circle round to south-west.
Tn, At -'L° i 11 ? 1168 • I F ala Konda » the last village in the plain. Twenty houses and supplies.
nnan-i-Surkh said to be 6 miles off. As Sykes was unable to obtain a guide here, he