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* for roads from Daulatabad to Lar, Furg, Isfaudaka and Khanu, see end of this route, pages 74 to 76.
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No. 18.
Bandar Abbas to Karman, via Daulatabad and Baft.
{Main Kafila A train of travellers; a caravan; or any large party of travellers. Route.)
No. of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distance, in
miles.
Inter
mediate,
Total.
Remarks.
Dabgazu
(Camp)
3,810'.
110
Chah-i-Gandu
4,050'.
14
124
and then reach the Tang-i-Namak.
stony gorge, again across the Kud-i-Pur and through the date grove of Pur by the village
which is situated to the north of the grove. Pur is a village of some 60 huts with a large date
erove and a few acres of cultivation watered by Jamies. Supplies m small quantities
procurable. Water abundant and good. Suitable grounds for camping available. Koad
difficult and only practicable for small bodies of troops like last march.
Leaving Pur the road runs over a stony track’for
a short way and dips into a deep dry nala along
which we proceed for one mile. Leaving the nala
the track runs along the skirts of a zone of lofty
hills which separates Daulatabad llrom Pur and Ahmadi districts. Here the regular road to
Karman vi& Daulatabad goes off north, it is reported a better route than the one l travelled
hr This route proceeds by Ubed, Kalatu and Mazingaran on the south ot Gudar-i.
Arabi pass, and by Shigalu and Bedu on the north side of this pass. Good water and a
small amount of supplies are available at these hamlets. Along this stony track several
small shallow nalas are crossed, a few containing sooi spring water these join the deep nala
running parallel on the left. The slope of this valley is to the south, the hills on either side
have an east and west direction. The general direction of the road is west by north and runs
over undulating shingly going. Camped by a rivulet of Sweet water about the centre of
the valley. There are no villages or huts here f and no supplies; road all the way fairly
difficult and impracticable for artillery.
Eoad runs along the valley over stony going,
crossing several shallow dry nalas. At three mile*
road dips intoa rcaZa running south-west toAhmadi.
We follow along this water-way for half a mile
Here the water is intensely salt and the nala covered
with a"ci vstalli^e^deposit 5 of salt, \ foot thick. At six miles we leave the salt pan and turn
north into another nala flanked by Shur hills. The road follows along thm nala ^ several
miles till we reach the Tang-i-Gilak, a broad open nala running east and west. Here is
snrin^ of sweet water. Crossing this Tang, the road runs up a difficult, rugged, rocky, narrow
Jota/crossing the watershed separating the Daulatabad from the Ahmadi drainage. Ihi«
ridae is the southern limit of Karman district. At the summit of this pass the barometer
read 4,830 feet. Descending over a stony path for some 500 yards we ascend over a narrow
rockv ledge for 300 yards to the summit of another pass, elevation, 4 780 feet. The descen
from herf is over an easy track down a dry sandy nala till we reach the small date grove of
Chah Ganda, merely a halting place. No villages or supplies, water good from a well. A
paucity of ground for camping purposes.
For three miles the road descends along a dry
sandy midst low hills. We then emerge on
to the broad Daulatabad plain descending gradu*
ally over undulating stony going to the 9th mile.
Onwards, the read is orer good hard olsy to Ui miles. Here along the centre dip. the groond
liable to inundation during rains and would be slippery going in bad weathei. Cultivation
extends on the left of the road till Daulatabad is reached. Eoad with a little trouble aiai ■
SL for arUlWy" Supplies of all sorts, forage, grass etc., are obtainable here and could be
™iwtprl from the surrounding villages on due notice being given. Good water (Eohana-i
Gashk)'abundant. Camping -rounds for large bodies of troops available, good camel grazing
over the plain and along the irrigation channels.
Patjlatabad* .
12|
1361
3,450'.