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supplies are scarce, though the grazing is good. One mile from the village, on
the road to the Kutal-i-PIr Zan, is a small, domed building, covering a
Jcadamgdh said to bear the imprint of Ali’s horse-hoofs, and in connection
with which the villagers relate the customary astounding miracle.
Mr. T. F. Odling, M.R.C.S., in a medical report on the part of Persia ad
jacent to the telegraph line, writes regarding the district between Kazarun
and Dasht Arzhin.
“ There is a fair supply of drinking water on the road, which, after climbing
the Kutal-i-Dukhtar, leads through the Oak Valley. Here, in early summer,
is a large fly ; mosquitoes also are numerous. The former attacks horses
producing large, brawny swellings, and quickly causing a loss of condition ;
the latter effectually prevents the traveller from sleeping.
“ The road now leads up the Kutal-i-Pir Zan (7,400 feet). Half-way up,
at a caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). , is an abundant supply of excellent water. Descending
(water generally abundant) the plain of Dasht Arzhin is reached (4,100 feet
above sea-level). Nearly one-half of this plain is covered by a marshy lake
which apparently has no outlet. The climate here varies greatly. The Oak
Valley has a mild winter, but it is very hot in summer ; on the top of the
Kutal-i-Pir Zan the winter is very severe, and the same may be said of Dasht
Arzhin. Here in summer the sun is hot, but the nights are generally cool.
About the Oak Valley and the Kutal-i-Pir Zan the population is very small.
The diet is principally acorn bread. Intermittent fever, dyspepsia, and oph
thalmia are prevalent. At Dasht Arzhin intermittent fever is always pre
valent ; it causes many deaths to children : the greater part of the population
have enlarged spleens and often enlarged livers ; the patient at the same time
often either suffers from costiveness or severe diarrhoea. During 1883-84
smallpox was very prevalent; in the spring of the latter year scarcely a family
escaped. Stone in the bladder also occurs; perhaps one or two cases are
brought into Shiraz every year for operation.”— (Monteith—Ouseley — St.
John- — Pelley — Jones — Stack-—Odling — Curzon, 1889. —Newcomen, 1905.)
DASHTI —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, on the right bank of the
Rudhilleh stream, 2 miles above Basri. It contains 100 houses inhabited
by original Persians, and a small fort with four towers. The villagers own
20 horses, 100 donkeys and 1,000 sheep ; they grow wheat, barley and a
few dates. Some wool also is exported.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
DASHTl (District) — '
A large and important district of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. littoral of Fars; inland
it begins at ’Arab! 27 miles east-south-east of Bushire town, and on the coast
at a point 40 miles south-south-east of the same place ; its termination is at
the mouth of the Bardistan valley, 105 miles south-east of Bushire.
Limits. —Dashti is bounded on the west by the sea and on the east,
approximately, by the seaward face of the main maritime range ; some
places connected with it lie in valleys within the range. On the north
Dashti meets the district of Tangistan, its extreme inland village on this
side being ’Arabia, as already mentioned, and the extreme coast village,
Qalat. On the south Dashti meets the district of the Shibkuh Ports, of
which the nearest to Dashti is Kangan.