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No. 25.
Chahbar to Bampur, cid Geh.
No. of
stage.
Distance, in
miles.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Rbmabks.
hamlets and date groves, and crossed a sort of plateau, which is some 30 feet above the level
of the liver. At lOg miles Naokinja, a small hamlet. There is a cross country track to
Bmth, but there are no villages on the way.
6
Geh*
1,476'.
101
86 *
streams in the fork of the river. The
Ichan
1,840'.
m
1002
At 2 miles the junction of the River Sirha
which has numerous hamlets above. Thence easy
going with occasional hamlets, to Geh, which is
situated at the junction ot the Gung and Kishi
j j i £ i,. v >H a fJ 0 consists of a splendid date grove with a
good deal of cultivation. From Geh there are camel tracks to Binth, Fanoch (vide pages 18,
64), Champ, and kasarkand. 6
Track up the River Gung, the main tributary of
the Geh river. The going is very rough, except
from mile 2 to 4, where the river bed is temporari
ly quitted. At 9 miles the track reaches a piece
of comparatively level ground, and at 11 miles the
, . u j -i. • ' i watershed 1,834', separating the Gung and Sirha
basins is reached ; it is merely a low ridge. °
From the watershed to Ichan is another rough 3* miles, passing down a torrent bed
Ichan, situated on the left hank of the Sirha, is an important village, and produces rice, corn'
under r;alm ” es nCei l ' 0n "“ nS 1 ' 00 ° il ‘ habi,ai “ ts - good 'can,ping ground,'
Camel road to Fanoch (vid Abgah)
Gazmie
2,650'
12
1122
The track at first follows up the Kaur-i-Shak-
shag, with occasional plots of cultivation. At 3
miles we struck across a plateau, N.N.W., and at
descend into its bed, which we keep to untilTtsTour^ ^t^mil'e^ the^Kam- 7 6
sr up * ru “ s a ,ootpaih to pip ’ " ith severai iu t ar teS;
Just above the junction of this tributary is a date grove with a lif+U „ u- *•
Thenceforward, the river bed grows narrower and rougher. & At'll miles (''nrwan' 1 lva , 1 L n *
plot of cultivation; and, at 12 miles, Gazmir, the last piece of ground broad en
a tent upon. As its name implies, it is simply a patch of gTor Wrisr 'Ae R ^
Sirha, however, holds plenty of excellent water to its source. * 6 ^ lver
9 | Sl !w 20 ' ‘ 'I 10 *| 12 3i | Very had road, the famous Shiraz-Bushire road
nii . I J , beiI >g easy in comparison,
l ie actual pass begins at about a mile above Gazmir, and is covered v,, u u
There is a camel track to Fanoch, and a footpath to Binth Uge ^ ou ^ er8 *
.0 ripf . 25 iooi a ii.i , ,i , ’
10
Pipf
3,295'
138*
Although the date grove of Sirha is the actual
source of the Sirha nver, yet upon leaving the
date grove we continued to ascend, with the Jrand
peak of Azbagh bearing due N., until at 3f miles
the actual watershed 3,648' is reached ; just below
and as we were over 3,500 feet for the first Gme^thp^lm^' ^ betracJc corned perfection,
descending, at 6> mile, „ S5 Ogh.^n puctty ttc ^
cultivation ; also a small population of 150 inhabitants! We fill? Spi ?" gS and
a short distance, and then went un a drv «/r/ a • hewed down the stream for
finally emerged upon a broad plain bomided on the F^h^+1 ? t°T barren ^ 0wn country
miles Washmakan, at 14 miles Jakkas, both date-grovf hYmlets La pfj ^
Lashar, lying near a large grove. Plentv of sunnl• P th chief V1,la g e of
^ameUracks to Champ and Muskhutan, E^and wTreAectlvelyf gr ° UndS and Water ’