'Report of Khan Bahadur Maula Bakhsh, Attaché to the Agent to the Governor General of India and Her Britannic Majesty's Consul-General for Khurasan and Sistan, on His Journey from Meshed to Quetta via Turbat-i-Haidari, Kain, Sistan, Kuh-i-Malik Siah and Nushki (7th April to 28th July 1898)' [‎48r] (100/156)

ON HIS JOURNEY FROM MESHED TO QUETTA, 1898.
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(a) According to enquiries made by me from Sistan guides the best route
Rest route for cnmel*caravans proceeding from for camel-caravans proceeding from
Nasirab&i (sistau) to Kuh-i-Maiik siah. Nasir&bad (Sistan)to Kuh-i-Malik Siah
is as follows:—
Nasirabad.
Distance
in miles.
1 Chiling (village) . . . 12
2 Sikkuha ..... 10
3 Khanduk .... 14
(A group of 4 or 5 wells about 10
feet deep, situated at about a
mile to the north of the ruins of
Shahr-i-Sukhta).
4 RAmrud (ruins) , , , 22
5 Gumbad-i-Sar-i-Skela (ruins) . 13
6 Hurmuk • . . • 22
7 Rub6t-i-Kuh-i-Malik Siah . . 18
(Thana)
Water good from canal.
Supplies procurable.
Ditto.
Water brackish, but drinkable from wells.
Fire-wood and camel-grazing obtainable.
No supplies procurable.
Good water from shallow wells in the bed of
a nalla.
Fire-wood and camel-grazing obtainable.
No supplies procurable.
Water brackish from a well about a mile north
east of the ruins.
Fire-wood and camel-grazing obtainable.
No supplies procurable.
Water good from springs.
Firewood and camel-grazing plentiful.
No supplies procurable.
Ditto ditto.
Total distance from Nasirabad
(Sistan) to Rubat-i-Kuh-i-
Malik Siah.
Ill
miles.
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Sunday, 12th June 1898.
107. Gumbad-i-Shela or Gumbad-i-Sctr-i-Shela.
Time taken by laden animals, 6| hours.
Distance, 14 miles.
Water, brackish, from a well.
Camel-grazing and fire-wood obtainable.
No supplies procurable.
Our road led south through tamarisk jungle, and we camped at a short
distance from the ruins of a graveyard and four domes built on a mound and
locally called Gumbada or Gumbadha (domes).
We passed a tank called Nawar on the road, but no rain having fallen in
these parts either this or last year it was quite dry.
(a) There is a well about a mile or so to the north-east of the Gumbads
which always contains water. The water
Well at Gumbad-i-Shela. brackish, and it is best to
carry drinking water from the previous stage. We carried drinking water with
us from Siah ab.
Camel-grazing and firewood are plentiful here.
(b) One of our camels strayed away while out grazing to-day through the
Loss of a camel through the negligence of the negligence of the < camelman who spent
camelnaan at Gumbad-i-Shela. his time in sleeping and did not iook
after the animals entrusted to his charge. A search was made lor it, but
Gumbad.i-
Sbela. ,