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HAJ—HAL
a large tank in front of the garden, which is the residence of one of the Anjir’a
lelatives.— [Bellew.)
HlJllBAD No. 2—
A village in Kirman near Shahabad (q.v.).
HAJIABAD No. 3—
A vil'age in Kirman, 42 miles east of Bandar Abbas on the road to Jashk.
It has 100 houses, with 200 inhabitants. Revenue 75 tumdns. The
Kaldntar is Agha ’All Riza. Water is good from 2 qandts. Cultivation:
wheat, barley, and dates.— (Pelly; Native Surveyors, 1902.)
HAJIABAD No. 4—
A village in Narmashir, with considerable cultivation, situated in a
broad shallow naZa-bed, a couple of miles to the north of Rigan.—
(Jennings, 1885.)
HAJIABAD No. 5—
A village in the Minab district (q.v.).
HAJI ASKIR (?) (Kirman)—
A caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). , about 13 miles from Bam, towards Kirman.
HAJI KHADAMl— Approx. Lat. 27° 11' 43"; Long. 57° 0' 24" ; Elev. 996'.
A village in the Bandar Abbas district, 4| miles north-north-west of
Minab. It consists of a mud fort and 210 palm-leaf huts, and, with the
neighbouring village of Mian Shahr, owns 50 yoke of plough oxen.
Irrigation is by a cut from the Minab river, and about 5,000 mans of seed
(barley) are sown yearly. From Haji Khadami to Minab there is an
almost continuous belt of date groves, the inhabitants of the former owning
from 25,000 to 30,000 palms. The village is under the chief of Shamil.
— (Jennings, 1885 ; Napier, 1899.)
HAKAMl—
A village in the Minab district (q.v.).
HALIL or HILIRl or HALIRl RUD—
A river in Kirman, which rises in the mountains to the west of Sarduieh,
and after a generally south-easterly course mingles its waters with those
of the Bampur river in the Jaz Muiian Hdmun.
It is the largest river in the province, and, indeed, the only one of any
importance, but even it has not a perennial flow throughout its entire
course, and running water is said to exist permanently only as far south as
Bijnabad, though it can always be obtained by digging 10 or 15 feet below
the surface. The Halil valley is very rich, and the fertile plains of Rudbar
and Jiruft are irrigated by its water. It is largely a snow-fed stream,
much of its water coming from the snow-capped Jamal Bariz range, and
like all Persian rivers is liable to sudden and disastrous floods. Jennings
experienced one such flood when marching from Rigan to Minab in April
1885—the worst, the natives said, that had been known for 20 years. He
found at Hasan Sultan a Icdfileh of 200 camels, carrying merchandise from