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cultivated. There are some 30 huts scattered under the hills. Deh
Bakri is owned by the Khans of Bam. Mdlidt, 500 tumdns. Good
camping-grounds available in the valley.— [Brazier-Creagh, 1894; Sykes,
1902.)
DEH BALA—
A village in Ramlshk, about 3 miles east-south-east of the village of
Ramishk. It consists of some 50 houses, situated on the Beharug stream
[q.v.), with some cultivation and a date grove. Supplies are procurable in
moderation and water is abundant and good. The malidt in 1893 was
ICO tunidns. — (Brazier-Creagh, 1893, from native information ; Sykes,
March 1898.)
DEH BALA, see SangOn.
DEH GAK—
A village on the Ughin stream in Persian Baluchistan.— [Brazier-Creagh,
1893.)
DELIGAN (Kirman)—
A river in the vicinity of Jamuli, on the Rigan-Minab road. This is
the same as the “ Kuhistani ” river.
DEHGVAR—
A place, or rather a tract of country, in the Talk district of Persian
Baluchistan. It is said to be a long strip of marshy ground covered by
immense date groves, and situated some 20 to 25 miles north-east of Talk.
Gulugar on the Rajab branch of the Mashkid [q.v.) is understood to
be about the same distance north-east of Dehgvar. From information
gathered by St. John when at Jalk in 1872, he understood the marsh to be
caused by the drainage from the hiils—Siahan Kuh, etc.— flowing under
the gravelly glacis which here, as in many other places, stretches a long
distance from the base of the ranges, and is known as the ddman-i-kuh, or
skirts of the mountains. Macgregor, however was informed (1877), that
a stream or watercourse, draining Lddis, entered Dehgvar from the
west-north-west. Ladis [q.v.) is a district on the Sarhad plateau.
It is quite possible that its water comes down here and contributes
to form, or is the principal agent in creating, the marshy tract in
which the date groves flourish. Between Dehgvar and the Mashkid
to within a short distance of Gulugar on the north-west, and right up
to the river-bed further south, the country is entirely covered with high
ridges of heavy sand. There can be little doubt that the reason why
the drainage from the hills accumulates at Dehgvar instead of running
off to the M ishkid is on account of the sand intervening. Many
examples of drainage thus intercepted may be found round the edges
of the Kharan and Shorawak deserts. To the south or south-east of
Dehgvar, and in the same line, are similar, but smaller, date groves.
The first of these, Ladgasht [q.v.), appears to be some way off, but
from that place to Askan, a distance of 10 to 15 miles, the date groves
seem to be pretty numerous, though not so thick as those of Dehgvar.
The whole of these outlying date groves appear to be in the country of