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The record is made up of 1 file (388 folios). It was created in 17 Jan 1899-4 Apr 1904. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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highest flood level being from 2 to 4 feet high ; local guides say, although they
could not remember having seen floods, that occasionally a. waterflow does make
its appearance, so it is as well for a telegraph wire to span them.
At the 243rd mile from Quetta is Juzaki camping ground, a levy shelter hut
marks the place ; here the water-supply is from a small spring and is not fit for
drinking; it is brackish and purgative.
From Juzaki the track continues on just a little north of due west, over
t0 Mitui . undulating stony ground, broken up by nala
beds.
At 1st mile is Juzaki nala.
At 2nd
At 5th
At 6th
At 7th
At 1 ath
At 14th
Ismaili „
Gatamul,,
Sotak „
Meski „
Alungi „
Laki ,,
there are 2 branches of this, as mentioned in Statement
D; these join into each other about £ mile south of
the camel track.
At 18th mile is Peshi nala.
At 19th
At 21 st
Gidampatki nala.
Mirui
On reaching Mirui nala the track turns north and leads up the nala bed for
$ mile to Mirui camping ground ; at the 264th mile from Quetta there is a levy
Thana post at Mirui, the water-supply from wells in the nala bed is good and
plentiful.
From Mirui the track continues west and ascends for 6 miles through a
Miniito Chahsund.n. narrow valley with low hills on either side,
... 5011 stonv and hard ; at the 7th mile crosses
a drv nala bed 300 yards wide with banks on either side about 8 feet high • at the
11th mile a similar dry nala bed is crossed ; 7 to n miles over a broad open
plain soil stony mixed with sand in places ; at the 12th mile is the mountain Koh-i-
Mahk Gat, which stands out by itself, rising abruptly out of the plain
t0 u a k u 1 ° f , > 2 °? feet approximately; its lower slopes are steep, over
tthich the rock rises almost in perpendicular precipices; this mountain makes
an excellent land mark, and can be seen for miles around ; the camel track passes
about 200 > arcs to the north of it, and continues on over an open plain with gra
velly surface ; 17 to 21 miles the ground becomes undulating and uneven ; at the
20th mile a dry nala bed 450 yards wide is crossed, its west bank is 30 feet high,
rhVm^ ab ° Ut 5 . feet ’ Wlth ^ g ra ^ ial slo P e * At Me 285th mile from Quettf is
water fronfone'we^Hs'good^and p1ent^ful. hUt markS ^ P laCe - here -F? 1 ? ° f
From Chahsundan the track turns north-west and leads over an open plain with
Chahsundan to Butak. hard stony soil for i (5 miles ; this part of
desert tothenorth by the Malik Naror'inVofhi'ik i L S .'; eltered fr ?. m ( the sand
is Butak Camnincr fk \ ^ h 11S ' At the 3 ° lSt mile fr °m Quetta
soil descending thrmwh a m i es through sand ; 9 to 12 miles over stony
sou, aescending through a narrow valley with low hills on either side the
s.opes of whtcn are covered with sand ; 12 to .5 miles through sand
the place^Va'terhTreVs'pL^fu!'and ^ercolltesT'" 51 gr ° Und : 3 lev y h , ut mar y
the north • it is of a filiM rln-^ • ^ • (oldtes ‘ ro,ri some rising ground towards
ed^vit^h'e 'defecta of /oat:^ cld's'^ !°t gr ° Und ck ' Se ^ being saturat-
purposes by digging a fresh well. ’ bUL be ter Can be cbtaint;d for Annking
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The file contains papers relating to Seistan [Sistan] and Persia [Iran].
The file includes printed copies of despatches from the Agent to the Governor-General of India and HM Consul-General for Khorasan and Seistan (Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Martindale Temple), to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, with enclosed despatches from Captain Percy Molesworth Sykes to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (the Marquis of Salisbury). Skyes’s despatches regard matters including: Seistan; trade routes into South-East Persia; the boundary between Persia and Afghanistan, in relation to the River Helmund [Helmand] changing its course (in despatch No. 5, which includes four sketch maps, folios 12, 13, 14 and 15); Sykes’s journey to Birjand (in despatch No. 7, which includes a sketch map on folio 20); the ruling family of Kain, which also governed Seistan, Tabbas and Tun; Sykes’s journey from Seistan to Kerman [Kirman] (in despatch No. 11, which includes a sketch map); and the direct Kerman-Quetta caravan trade that Sykes was trying to establish.
The file also includes copies of the following papers:
- A despatch from Temple to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, enclosing a letter from Temple to Sir Henry Mortimer Durand (HM Minister, Tehran), with copies of enclosures, regarding the establishment of a Seistan and Kain consulate
- A letter from Charles Edward Pitman, Director General of Telegraphs, to the Secretary to the Government of India Public Works Department, enclosing a copy of a ‘Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for a Telegraph Line from Quetta to the Persian Frontier’ by H A Armstrong, Assistant Superintendent, Indian Telegraph Department, which includes six photographs of views along the route [Mss Eur F111/352, f 52; Mss Eur F111/352, f 53; Mss Eur F111/352, f 54; Mss Eur F111/352, f 55; Mss Eur F111/352, f 56; and Mss Eur F111/352, f 57], and a map showing the proposed route of the telegraph line [Mss Eur F111/352, f 59]
- Letters from Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan, to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, enclosing copies of the diary of the Political Assistant, Chagai, for the weeks ending 16 February, 28 February, and 8 March 1900
- Diary No. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 of Major-General George Frederick Chenevix-Trench, HM Consul for Seistan (Diary No. 6 includes a sketch map, folio 86)
- A copy of a ‘Report on Reconnaissances Made while Attached to the Seistan Arbitration Commission’ by W A Johns, Deputy Consulting Engineer for Railways, Bombay
- A copy of the report ‘Notes on Persian Seistan’, compiled by Captain Edward Abadie Plunkett, and issued by the Government of India Intelligence Branch, Quarter-Master General’s Department
- Two copies of map signed by Plunkett titled ‘Persian Seistan-Cultivated Area’ [Mss Eur F111/352, f 270]
- A booklet entitled ‘Notes on the Leading Notables, Officials, Merchants, and Clergy of Khorasan, Seistan, Kain, and Kerman.’
- Printed copies of letters from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India (Lord George Francis Hamilton), relating to the maintenance of British interests in Persia, dated 4 September 1899 and 7 November 1901 (the former with an enclosure of a minute by the Viceroy on Seistan).
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- 1 file (388 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 390; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 301A
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- Title
- 'Seistan'
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- front, front-i, 2r:51v, 58r:58v, 60r:112r, 113r:125v, 147r:218r, 218r, 219r:269v, 271r:301v, 301Ar, 301Av, 302r:388v, 389v:390r, 389r, back
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