Coll 28/28A ‘Persia: Perso-Baluchistan frontier; demarcation near Mirjawa [mostly copies of papers on 28/28]’ [‎202r] (403/572)

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likely to offer considerable difficulty, the most equitable settlement would appear to
be in dividing the Piran Ziarat lands equally between Persia and ourselves.
Remarks .—The status quo in May 1905 and the status quo ante are sufficiently
explained in the body of this memorandum. The Zarizais returned to Piran on their
( ^vn initiative. They have been warned, and the levies instructed, not to interfere
vuth Persians, t.e., Shahozai Baluch cultivators. There are no sarbazes at Piran.
and none were left there by Sultan Muhammad Hussain.
F. C. WEBB WA RE, A/a/or,
Political Agtnt, Chaq*t.
Kacha.
The existing mop.—With reference to Sir H. McMahon’s signed map sheet No.
14-N.-W., dated Seistan, 5th November 1904, it may be well to premise this memo
randum by saying that the several peaks south of Kacha through which his blue
boundary line passes, enumerated from east to west, are :—
The mountain which connects peak 7157[with peak 7336 and thence continues to
Kacha is named the Mazawad range ; these two peaks being termed, respectively,
‘ k Kisan Mazawad” and “ Mazan Mazawad ” or Mazawad the lower and Mazawad the
higher. The peak due south of Kacha “ thana ” which is cut by the blue boundary
line is named Bagh-Koh and peak 7033, which lies nearly due west from here, is term
ed Padagi Koh, the name under which the western prolongation of this mountain
is also known. The range which the blue boundary line follows from peak 7157 to
Bagh-Koh is the Suntabad range and the large nullah lying immediately below its
northern foot is named the Suntabad nullah. It may incidentally be remarked that
the word “ Sant ” in the Baluchi language means “ devoid of.” There is no water
in the nullah. Within the Kacha drainage limits, as marked by the blue boundary
line, there are, excluding the nullah just named, three important nullahs. That
shown on the map running parallel to the southern foot of the Kacha Koh enjoys the
name of the Pourchinki nullah. There is a spring of water in a small feeder at the
head of this nullah but the supply although good and constant is scanty. The large
nullah which runs near the northern foot of Padagi is known as Padagi Nullah.
South-east of Padagi Koh there is a spring of water known as the Padagi spring
which yields an abundant supply but it lies on the Persian side of the frontier. The
main drainage nullah flowing north-east from Bagh hill is known up to the point it
approaches Kacha “ Thana ” as the Bagh nullah and the large nullah, which runs
north-west parallel to the Mazawad range and forms one of the main feeders of the
Bagh nullah, is called the Mazawad nullah. At the northern foot of the Bagh Koh
a small spring of water exists, but the supply is scanty, although apparently
somewhat in excess of that yielded by the Pourchinki spring. The only other
springs of water which are to be found within Kacha blue boundary limits are
those of Chedegi and Mazawad. The former appears much on par, as regards
supply, with the Bagh spring: native information affirms, however, that the latter,
which is situated at the head of the Mazawad nullah, and is, apparently, from 400—
600 feet higher than Kacha “ Thana ” has a very fair supply of water, although the
spring, itself, is somewhat shut in. There are no other remarks to make regarding
the existing map except to say that the drainage basin of the Kacha river as shown
in it is correct.
Cultivation. —The only cultivation which has ever existed within the limit under
reference is at Kacha “ Thana ”, vide the attached map. The land here is the pro
perty of the Rekis who nominally own the hill range which separates Saindak from
the Piran river. From 1899-1900, inclusive, these lands were cultivated by one
Jangian, a near relative of the Reki Levy Duffadar A Non-Commissioned Officer in the Indian Cavalry. who holds charge of the Kirtaka
post- From the year 1900 they have been neglected and this state of affairs continu
ed up to the summer of 1906 when, at the initiative of the Kirtaka Levy Duffadar A Non-Commissioned Officer in the Indian Cavalry. ,
a small piece of ground, a few square yards in area, was placed under melons. In
1899 the levy post at Kacha was transferred to Chah Muhammad Raza, on the
more direct route, and, no doubt, it was the withdrawal of the protection afforded
by this post that was largely responsible for the land falling out of cultivation.
It may bo remarked that this same Jangian, prior to 1897, had taken crops off
the Kacha lands from time to time. In area the cultivable land at Kacha “thana”,
5205 F.D. ., ..