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Gazoo Jehand, 60 tents ; 300 people ; Kanat sweet wattr;
100 camels ; 30 cows ; 3,000 sheep ; 13,000 mans wheat.
Supplies limited.
Kamalabad, 25 tents ; 125 people ; Kanat sweet water.
Sangoon has a magnificent cypress, 25 feet girth, 5 feet
from ground, and i« the finest 1 have seen.
2] st December A. Skah Jungle. Height, 5,205 feet.
Temp.—7 a.m., 38 ; 6 p.m., 54.
A stream of sweet water, impregnated with iron, lying on the north
eastern base of Taftau. Fuel and camel grazing fair.
2Uh December 1898. Ladis. Height, 4,186 feet.
Temp.—7 a.m., 41 ; 6 p.m., 53.
The term Ladis is given to the following 7 Hashims, or tent-encampments.
Starting from the w*est and going down the right bank of the river,
we have —
(1) Hezuk, (2) Barziar, (3) Bangan, (4) Ladis, (5) Alanjan,
(0) Meer Koh, (7) Audeh.
(1) Dezuk has no tents, and is the name given to a ruined fort and a
spring of water, round which there is good grazing, 4*80 miles up
the river
(2) Barziar, the Ked Khoda is Boost Mohommad. 30 tents; 150 people ;
wheat and barley 800 mans ; cotton 150 mds. ; sheep 500; cows 30;
donkeys 20 ; camtis 10 ; labourers 10 ; one Kanat sweet.
(3) Bangan, the Ked Khoda is Abdul Kerim Khan of Sangoon. He
now lives at Bangan, because, he says, it is the boundary of England,
Persia and Afghanistan, and he is to build a fort for the Persian
Government here, as it is intended to station soldiers at the place.
8 tents; 40 people; wheat and barley 450 mans; cotton 150
mans; cows 5 ; donkeys 10 ; sheep 50; labourers 5. One Kanat
sweet water.
(4) Ladis (5) Alanjan.—The people of Ladis have all migrated to Afgha
nistan, owing to the scarcity and insecurity in Sarhad. The half of
the Alanjan people have also gone. Ked Khoda, Shah Morad ; 20
tents ; 100 people ; wheat and barley 1,200 mans ; cotton 300 mans ;
labourers 10 ; donkeys 10; cows 10 ; sheep 300. One Kanat.
(6) Meer Koh. Mohammad Reza Khan and Mirza Khan. 40 tents ;
200 people ; wheat and barley 1,350 mans; cotton 450 mans ; cows
50; donkeys 50 ; sheep 1,500; labourers 20. Three Kanats sweet.
(7) Andeh. Bakhshik, 20 tents; 100 people. Two Kanats. Wheat
and barley 1,200 mans ; cotton 150 mds.; cows 10 ; donkeys 10 ;
camels 10; sheep 500; labourers 5.
There is an abundant supply of excellent water here from the Ladis
river. Tim soil, too, is good, and this valley could be made a very
flourishing place.