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to have been battered down by Mir Yusuf, with an old gun lying half buried
in the ground: and a zldrat called Shah Mardan, which is much frequented
by Baluchis. There are about 10 mud houses and 150 mat huts. Some
of the houses are of a fair size, and there is a house of considerable preten
sions belonging to Muhammad Sahib. The population may be estimated
at 800 souls, of whom rather more than half are Baluchis ; the remainder
are Shaikhs, Jats and slaves. There are extensive date plantations and
sufficient fields for the needs of the inhabitants. Dates, wheat and
arzun are cultivated, and to a lesser extent cotton and barley. The village
possesses 200 camels, 50 donkeys, 60 cattle and 300 sheep and goats. Water
is from two wells, 8 feet deep, and is muddy but sweet. The inhabitants are
chiefly agriculturists, except some weavers called Julahag. They deal
also carpets called zilu and Ichirsak, date-mats called tah, firewood and
which they export to Qishm island and to the Arabian coast, specially
Batmah, their trade relations being chiefly with these places and with the
ersian districts of Bashakard and Minab. Boats are obliged to anchor,
about !,OOO yards from the shore, as the bay is very shallow. The trade
with Masqat is now insignificant. Some silk embroidery is done by the
women and fishing nets are made. The administration is noticed in the
article on Jashk district. There is good partridge shooting, and some hares
are obtainable.—(Aormer, 1906 ; Craufurd, 1910.)
JASHK NAU or NEW JASHK—
A port of Persian Makran and station of the Indo-European Telegraph
. e P art n i ent; it is situated on the promontory which ends south-westwards
m Jashk point and lies about 140 miles south-east of Bandar Abbas 145
miles no_rth-north-east of Masqat and 290 miles west by north of GwSdar.
Ihe Jashk peninsular divides Jashk East Bay on the one side from Jashk
West Bay on the other, and is itself nearly cut off from the mainland by
a winding creek which runs inland from the western bay at a place 3i miles
northwards from the tip of the promontory. The land on which New Jashk
stands is low; the upper stratum consists of a loose sand mixed with clay
and the sub-stratum of hard calcareous matter, chiefly a shelly conglo*-
^mate of the place is extreme, the thermometer, which may fall to
; * alire nheit m winter, sometimes rises to 110° in summer, and the
heat^is rendered more trying by the moistness of the atmosphere, the mean
humidity of wffiich exceeds 70 per cent, of saturation. The prevailing winds
are easterly but m winter it frequently blows from the north-west. Sand-
s orms are of frequent occurrence and during their continuance the air is
eayi y charged with a fine red dust. Malarial fever is prevalent in the cold
er ' norrna ^ r ainfall is about 4f inches per annum,
ihe mean normals of temperature, etc., extracted from the Meteo-
rolog cal Reports of the Government of India to end of 1902 are given below—
Month. Max. Min Wind. Rain.
January .. 73-6 601 N. 38 E. 0-87"
February .. 75 6P8 N. 39 E. 0-97"
-M- ar ®h •• 78-7 661 N. 7 W.
Apnl .. 85-2 73-3 N. 59 w’ 0-03'