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Pazga . . 25 96 Follow the Sartipi for half an hour between
low lulls, and then ascending a steep defile emerge
on a liisrh shingly plateau. Straight ahead is the
<ino Kuh (6,400 feet)* and to the right the parallel
ranges of Ligandi and Shariki. After 25 miles, round the N. W. end of the latter,
strike for the foot of the former. These two ranges are about 1,600 feet high and impassable.
The Shariki nala, which divides them, contains a little brackish water ; 8 miles from
Liigandi, pass between the Shariki range and a low hog backed hill on the left. The pass is
wide and easy. Krom it there is a slight descent for 2 | miles to the Gidich valley, which is
here quite straight for 5 or 6 miles and about a mile broad ; the river which is about 60
yards wide and 2 feet deep is fringed by a fine belt of tamarisks. It makes an excellent
camping place —water, firewood, and forage being abundant.
After crossing the river go B. for about 2 miles ; then N. over a fairly level, but rocky
plain past the Shinn Kandag nala ; then, leaving the \liroi Kuh on rhe left, over 3 miles
of rough ground to the Hnrdin valley. Then over rough ground to the Pazga valley, which
is the regular camping ground for caravans from 1 inih.
Gari Da rap
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Up the Pazga valley, which narrows to half a
mile, between broad low hills ; at 1 | miles strike
the Kahirgazi, then the Kalkia stream, which
follow for about a mile ; then leaving it re-enter
the Pazga valley ; cross the river and, rounding the foot of the Kalkia hill, again cross the
Pazga. which is here about 20 feet wide and I 5 feet deep, tip a difficult defile called the Kid-
agan Darag, through a sea of hillocks to the Hadaror Halirt stream on the banks of which are
many settlements. Pass the Siga Pusht hill and enter a wide valley full of trees and shrubs.
Once more re-enter the Pazga ;'then by the Siga Pusht nala to the Dari river, where there
18 ? large settlement with date groves and cultivation. This spot is a well irrigated little
oasis, one canal being quite a mile in length. The river-bed is broad and shingly; settle
ments are dotted all along it, Daskir, ttah Gudar, Tarampoy being the principal ones.
Up the river-bed between the villages of
Tarampoy and Renduz. About 2 miles after
emerging from the river, the road to the Fanoch
. pass branches off at a date grove called Kemkan ;
J 2 miles beyond cross the rocky bed of the Zangulan stream, flowing east; 3 miles further
on is Binth, a mud fort and village on a high, steep hill ; supplies are scarce, and both forage
and firewood are brought from a distance.
Binth
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1,400'.
* This seems impossible. The Gao Kuh is considerably to the S. VV. of the point here reached.
No. 27B.
Si; rag [»\age 9 of main route) to Binth.
No. of
sta<e.
UlSlANCB, IN
Mil, SB.
Names of stages
Inter
mediate,
Total.
3
Sartapi, or Sabip
ab.
25
71
Beuabks,
Up the bed of the Karwan and for 2 hours over
a high shingly plateau ; then along the base of
some barren hills to the Tenk or Tang river.
OA .. . There are, however, 3 rivers of this name within
20 miles of eac, other. This Tenk has rocky sides and bottom. Follow it for about a mile.
J he bod is about 400 yards wide, and the hills which enclose it, nowhere more than 300 feet
iigh. the road now goes Af. W. heading for the Sihran-i-Kuh or Crimson hill, leaves the
lenk, and goes down the Sihrani for about a mile. Then passing up a steep narrow
dehle descends on the other side to the Gari river. Following this a short time, cross another
steep delile into the Derai nala and then after a final steep climb reach the bed of the Sartani
or 8 ardab.
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