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HIN-HIN
actual cultivation. In 1905 the revenue of the Deh Mulla neighbourhood
was farmed for 5,000 tfwmaws, and the revenue of the rest of the district for
18.000 turnons’, this was an advance on former years and has not been realiz
ed without hardship and oppression. The Imperial Persian Customs have
posts at Hindian town and at Tuwaisheh near the coast.
In the 10th century the Hindian district contained the remains of afire-
temple and some water wheels of ancient construction.
The local tradition that the Portuguese once held the district receives some
support from tlm fact that the name “ Purgal ” is still recognized, and that
there are traces of buildings and several old iron guns of the usual Portu
guese type at Deh Mulla. Deh Mulla may perhaps have been a Portuguese
factory An East India Company trading post. , the river being then navigable above Hindian town as it was to
some extent, as late as 1836.— (Bailward — Gabriel—Persian Gulf Gazetteer,
1908.)
HINDIAN (Kiver) or ZAIDAN or AB ZUHREH—
This river is formed by the junction in the plain of Zaidan at a point 22
miles north by west from Bandar Dilam on the coast, of two streams, the
Khairabad or Ab-i-Shirin and the Shulistan or Ab Shur, both from the east
ward. The more northern of the two streams, the Khairabad, is sweet;
it is said to take its name from a ruined settlement upon its right bank a
few miles above its junction, and to take its rise in a high range of mountains
in the Kuhgalu Lur country. In its course the Khairabadjgathers to itself
the water of several streams, of which the chief are the Zuhreh and the
Kumbal. The Shulistan, which has bitter waters, is stated to have its origin
in a mass of hills to the wes't of the Kazarun-Shiraz road which were former
ly inhabited by a tribe called Shul, and have now been occupied for some
centuries by the Mamassanis. The Shulistan, like the Khairabad river,
has several tributaries, and one of these, the Shish Pir, which comes down
from the north of Shiraz, is exceedingly bitter, strongly impregnating the
Shulistan and even tainting the Hindian below the junction with the Khair
abad, yet not in such degree as to make the water of the Hindian undrink
able. Even at the driest season of the year the Khairabad and Shulistan
are both considerable streams, with a breadth, at their junction, of 25 yards
and having a shingly bottom.
The upper course of the river formed by their union is generally known
by the name of ^Zaidan not of Hindian, and may be taken as extending from
Haidar Karar, a small Imamzadeh situated on the tongue of land between the
Khairabad and the Shulistan, to the border of the Hindian district, where
it issues from the hills ; in other words the length of this section is about 30
miles and its direction is from east-south-east to west-north-west. Here
the Zaidan flows with a breadth of about 70 yards and a strong current of
miles an hour through the Zaidan plain, a valley, 5 miles wide, governed
from Behbehan, and enclosed between a northern and a southern range of
hills : the former has an elevation of about 1,500 feet, and the latter, which
is the subsidiary maritime range forming the island boundary of the Liravi
district, of about 1,000. The caravan route from Bandar Dilam to Beh
behan crosses the river near Cham Zaidan, where there are two or three
fords : the bottom there is shingly and good, but the strength of the current