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DAY—DEH
Below this gorge the channel widens out to a broad stony bed, with
scarped banks 10 to 15 feet high.
See also Mazavi river.— (Galindo, November 1888.)
DAZAFK—
A village on the Dasht Ab plain (q.v.) in the Kirman province.
DAZANOK—
A camping-ground in Persian Baluchistan, 16 miles east of Magas, on
the banks of the Mashkid river. Fuel and grazing are abundant, but the
water, though plentiful, is very brackish.— (Showers, 1902 ; Tighe, 1902.)
DAZIM—
A stage in the sub-district of Irafshan in Bampur. It is situated 12
miles west of Irafshan, on the banks of a river that flows past that town.—
(Sykes, 1893, from native information.)
DEGAN-I-DAMCHAN (Kirman)—
A ndld, 2 miles from Kaliri, running into the Milan-i-Jihun Hdmun. —
(Jennings.)
DEH—
The name of a small hamlet in the northern group of the Kalaghan
villages. (See article on Kalaghan.)— (Jennings, 1885.)
DEHAK—
A village in Persian Baluchistan, 20 miles south-east of Dilavar Khan
in DIzak, on the road to Kuhak. It consists of a mud fort situated on
a hill overlooking the Mashkid Valley, and contains some 50 inhabitants.
Water is good and plentiful from a kdriz, and supplies can be obtained
in moderation. There are various hamlets in the vicinity, but none of
any importance.
This village is said to give its name to that part of the Dizak valley lying
between Isfandak and itself.— (St. John, 1871 ; Hulseberg, 1902.)
DEHAK— Elev. 5,400'.
A patch of cultivation with a qandt of sweet water in Sarhad, 34 miles
west of Ladis, on the road from there to Galugan. There is good grazing
! in the neighbourhood, and some fuel is procurable.— (Wood, December
1899.)
DEHiN, or DEHAM or DAHAN—
A village in Persian Baluchistan, about 4 miles north-east of Bint and
on the same stream. (See Bint.) Haji ’Abdul Nabi (1839) invariably
couples Bint and Dehan together.* Goldsmid passed it in 1866, and
remarks that it is not visible from the road on account of the trees. At
^ that time the people had been almost destroyed by a severe visitation
of cholera, only about 15 families being left out of 150. Floyer, who
* A common practice in this country, as Bam-Narmashir, Bahu-Dashtl&ri, et«. , .