'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎206r] (416/652)

of tamarisks : water 8 feet from the surface, also a spring on the right, but
the path leading to it is only available for footmen. Grass, camel-grazing
and wood all abundant. Naraf, the next stage on, is 14 miles distant.—
( Jennings.)
MAL GAZUL—
A place, 34 miles from Nasratabad on the road to Neh, situated in an
open valley in the bed of the^ river, between hills running from south to
north.— {Mohi-ud-Diri ).
MALAGI MACH—
A place in the Jashk district {q.v.).
MALI—
A village in Makran, about 22 miles from Geh, on the Fantich road.
(Brazier-Creagh, 1893.)
MALIK (Kirman)—
A small village of the Sarnai group.— {Jennings.)
MALIKABAD—
A village of 30 huts on the road between Qasimabad and BampGr
in Persian Baluchistan.— {Brazier-Creagh, 1893.)
MALIKABAD—
A village in Rudbar {q.v.) in Kirman.
MALIKl—
A spring of good water, 10 miles beyond Mai Gazul, and 8 from Chah“
i-Rahman, on the road from Nasratabad to Neh. The spring is at the
foot of some high hills called Lankan.— (Mohi-ud-Din.)
MALIKl CHIDAG—
A heap of ^ stones or a rough stone pillar (chedah) west of the Sadaich
river, in Persian Baluchistan. (See Sadaich.) On the telegraph route map
the Maliki Chidag is marked as Malikani Chedag, about 6 miles from
Sadaich, at the foot of the Huni hills {q.v.). Ross says it is in the low hills
north of Sadaich. Its exact location is a point of some little interest, as
native tradition asserts it to have been erected by an independent prince, or
malik, of Makran, to mark the limit of his territory. It is also said that
Nasir Khan I of Kalat extended his sway as far as this point.
HajI ’Abdul Nabi mentions another boundary mark of the same name
near Qasrqand.
MALIK SIAH, KtJH-I— Elev. 3,12s'.
A halting-place on the borders of Sarhad and Sistan, between the stages
of Duzdab and Hurmuk on the Ladis-Nasratabad road, distant 28£ miles
from the former and 5 miles from the latter. It has a small spring of sweet
water. There is a Customs Frontier Post at Kuh-i-Malik Siah under
Sistan. It is the residence of a British Indian vice-consul (under the
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