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arid and uninhabited for the greater part of the year. From the northern r>art
Baghcha to Kala Naft (or Kani Masi) the road itself is accepted as the frontier - °i
thence to Kumesang range. The Turks, I believe, claim that the line should run fr
Kani Biz, between Shah Kuh and Baghcha, and along Parumal and ZelezerdT
Dubrula, thereby including Baghcha and Saumar. ®
The May .—The map substantially confirms the result of my work with M QrloP
With the exception of the details south of the Shemiran it coincides with the 1847
commission map, which is the most correct in existence.
The blue li ue is that termed by me previously No. 1, providing for the eventualit
of leaving Chia Surkh * (Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Limited) in Persian territory
Starting at the confluence of the Zimkan and Sir wan Rivers, it follows the main rid/e
of Baizel, thence to Tavghuz (a place inhabited by Babajani Kurds), thence up the
Cham-i-Zerishk to nearly opposite the source of Dar-i-Zengena stream, which roughly
marks the boundary between Sharafbaini and Babajani tribes (north) and Quran (south)
From the confluence of Dar-i-Zangena and Ikhtiarabad streams (thence called Abbasan)
to Mamashan, a village near the Abbasan, across the undulating plain to Tilaku ruW
thence to the tree on the summit ol Dar-i-Divan (Dar Dedaban on the commission
map), thereby leaving Sarkala plain to its present occupant, Quran and Walad Beh
From Dar-i-Divan due west across the plain (practically uninhabited) to the Sirwan
River.
The physical features of the line are not very well defined, but the consideration
of leaving Chia Surkh in Persian territory, which demands a compensating cession on
the Khanashur side, renders it difficult to choose a well-defined line.
The reel line is that called No. 2 by me previously, and was the one considered
most advisable by M. Orlof and myself. Its physical features are sufficiently defined
on the map, and I beg to refer you to former notes for the reason of its selection. If
the line seems to give too little to the Turks, a combination of Nos. 1 and 2 would be
very satisfactory, i.e., No. 1 from the north to Darband-i-Ur and thence No. 2, as
Turkey would _ thereby gain, undivided, the Sharafbaini and Babajani tribes, which
are both Sunni. Such a line would give them a country which they could make very
valuable, and of which the Persians never would or could make use.
A ole. Both these lines leave Shemiran to the Turks, see note on Shemiran.
I he alternately red and blue .line is that called No. 3 previously, and provides for
the contingency of leaving in Turkish territory the Senjabi tribe’s winter lands. It
practically follows the roughly defined boundary between the Senjabi and Kalhur
lands, the latter being left in Persian hands.
ohemiran. inis small property is, I believe, strictly speaking, Persian territory,
but is no longer regarded as such locally. It belongs to the Jaf Muradi (Turkish
ivuids), and its boundaries are those shown, viz., from Darband-i-Khan, along a small
stream rising at Karga Mil (a high pass), through Karga Mil, which has Zimna Kuh
on its north and Khoshik on its south. Thence eastwards, Pusht-i-Kala mountain is
recognised as lurkish and Shah Kerim mountain as Persian. Thence it follows the
mmkan mver to the Sirwan as shown. The territory is shaded on the map.
. . baumar. A small plain on the Gangir River claimed by the Turks, principally, I
r m V 9 ecause Biey fear that il it be cultivated by irrigation from the Gangir the
am i watei supply would fail which is the case. They have consequently, even
“ , 01 ^ e (. ^bo-4), pi evented its cultivation, and demolished a Persian customs post
eiec ed quite close to the southern end of the Kumesang hills, in order to assert their
right to the land. It is at present deserted.
. a 7 7 T E. B. SOANE.
Una Surkh, January 13, 1913.
. P p Js ^ Pai / [ (Persian, Pusht-i-Kuh) several villages are owned by Sheikh
ajm-ud-j in of Biara (Turkish subject and place). He resides at these villages for
-some part of the year. It is understood that the Turks rely on him in a great measure
to gam the people over to an appreciation of Turkish rule.
^ Shaikh Nizam-ud-Din, brother of the above, has latelv come to settle in Zohab
Plain, lie is a lurkisli subject and prisoner.
These are sons of Sheikh Umar of Biara.
E. B. S.
* The point marked by Mr. Greenway, of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company
was fully twelve miles too far north. See correspondence between Foreign
Company, London. e
, as representing Chia Surkh
Office and Anglo-Persian Oil