'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎59r] (122/652)

BOTGAEDAN—
A halting-place in Bashakard, 16 miles from Baim 8 hk, on the road
to Bint. Water is obtained from a stream.— (Sykes, from native inform
ation, 1898.)
BUN-I-KAHNG— Elev. 1,845*.
The name of a place at the foot of the hills, which is an excellent halting-
place on the road from Rigan to Minab, 10 miles from Kaleh-i-Qantak and
5J from camp east of Kahuri-Daraz, with a total distance from Rigan of
154J miles. Perennial sweet water in river-bed ; grazing, wood and grass
abundant.— (Jennings, 1885.)
BUN RUD—
A tiny hamlet in Makran, 19 miles north-west of Pip, on the road to
Maskhutan. It is situated on a river flowing west or north-west.—
(Sykes, 1893, from native information.)
BUNSIR (Pass)—
A pass or kutal over the Sianeh Kuh range, about 13 miles north-west of
Isfandak, on the route from that place to Jalk.
The summit is 4,786 feet high and is a level stony plateau of shale and
sandstone, 100 yards wide, and is the highest point on the Sianeh Kuh,
which the road crosses between Isfandak and Jalk. The ascent, which
commences as far back as Isfandak, is very gradual and the descent too
is easy. All drainage up to this point runs south and south-east to the
Mashkid river on the Isfandak plain. All drainage onwards runs north
and north-east via, the Kalaghan Nala to the Mashkid river, joining the
latter to the east of Jalk on the desert. The following is a description of
the pass given by St. John :—
“ Our road lay across the plain in a north-westerly direction to the hills, which we
entered by an easy pass called the Gudar-i-Bunsir. The summit is about 4,500 feet
above the sea . . ...... Seen from the other side of the valley, the
Sianeh hills had bolder and more varied outlines than the southern ranges, of whose
monotonous ridges of sandstone and shale our eyes had long been weary; but our hopes
of something new in geological formations were disappointed, and the only novelty
was a welcome increase of vegetation. In an hour’s stroll after reaching the camp
ing-ground, a knoll near the path, a mile from the summit of the pass, I found
asafcetida in abundance, maidenhair fern growing round springs in the gullies, wild
pistachio, and the two most characteristic plants of the lower ranges of South Persia—
the broom-like wild almond, and a shrubby heath, which has a curious resemblance
to a gooseberry bush covered with fruit.”
The road descends from the top of the pass down a tributary of the Bun-
sir Nala fora short distance, then turns to the east over an easy kutal to
avoid a gorge in the above tributary, and descending joins the main
Bunsir Nala here.
At about 4 miles from the top of the kutal in this nald is a halting-place
called Daff-i-Afi. At 4J miles from this point the Bunsir Nala is joined by
the Pork Nala which comes in from the south-south-west. Up this ndld one
road runs to Dehak over the Brmjlnan Pass, and another one following this
same ndld for some distance at length diverges and runs over the Darpa-