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GAZ-GAZ
persistent for some considerable time after tasting it. Neither horsea
nor camels would drink it. The vicinity of the pools for a quarter of
a mile round is hard and crusted as if frozen, cracking under the feet;
this is due to the earth being impregnated with this saline stuff
(carbonate of lime ?). In parts, the neighbouring ground is covered with
a thick efflorescent layer of the same substance.
It is now abandoned as a halting-place by fcd/iZe/is, no water being avail
able.
The pool is said to last until the middle of April, but the water,
brackish and indifferent at best, must become worse as it dries up.
A few stunted “ pir” bushes in the neighbourhood offer inferior fodder.
At this place the tracks to Isfakeh and Maskhutan divide. The former
is on the road to Chahbar via Kb and Geh, the latter on that to Fanuch.
Isfakeh is about 23 miles distant: Baluchan Chah, on the other road, 14 or
15 miles.
On the 28th January 1876 Floyer found the pool at Gazkuk covered
with a thin coating of ice, and before reaching Maskhutan he was over
taken by a severe snowstorm. This testifies to the cold which may
be experienced in the Bampur desert in winter.— (Grant ; Floyer ;
Brazier-Creagh, 1893.)
GAZLANG—
A halting-place in Makran, 17 miles east of Qasrqand, on the road to
Bafatan. There are no supplies.— (Sykes, 1894, from native information.)
GAZMIR— Elev. 2,650'.
A halting-place in Makran, 12 miles from Ichan on the Chahbar-Bam-
pur road, on the banks of the Sirha. There are a few trees, but no houses.
— (Brazier-Creagh, 1893 ; Sykes, 1893.)
GAZNAN KUH (Kirman)—
Hills in the vicinity of the Murghak Kuh range.— (Jennings.)
GAZRIZ—
A village in the Shamil district (g.v.).
GAZ SlLA—
A village in Kirman, situated on the right bank of the Halil Rtid,
About 16 miles east-north-east of Sang-i-Safid. The village stands on
saline but cultivated ground, while in the neighbourhood is a thick
tamarisk jungle. Supplies and water plentiful.— (Newcomen, 1905.)
GAZU— Elev. 4,275'.
A settlement in Sarhad, 28 miles north-east of Vasht, on the road to
Ladis. It consists of a small patch of cultivation, about 4 acres in extent,
situated about a mile from the eastern bank of the Gazu Kaur. Excel
lent water is obtainable from a kdriz, and the grazing is good, but there
are no supphes and fuel is very scarce.
Its small fort, which even in 1885 was noted as being dilapidated and
deserted, was destroyed in 1902 by an Anglo-Persian force.
The villages shown on the survey of India map, 1900 edition, as lying
between Kambalabad and Gazu, do not exist.— (Jennings, 1985 ; Tighe,
1902.)