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RAHIMABAD oa DEH RAHIM—
A small village possessing only 4 ploughs of cultivable land situated on
the Milak Canal. Annual outturn of grain 144 kharwars. Government
revenue 48 kharwars.— (Maula Bakhsh.)
RAI—
A village of 50 houses, 34 cattle, 30 donkeys.— {II. D. Napier, 1893.)
RAMRUD—
A halting place on the road to Kuh-i-Malik Siah and Gudar-i-Shah from
Sehkuha, from which it is 35 miles. It is situated between Haozdar and
Gumbad-i-Shela, being 13 miles from the former and the same distance
from the latter. It is 22 miles south of Yarmal, the most southern village
in actual occupation in Persian Seistan. There are the ruins of an old
fort here.
The fort is a rectangular structure, somewhat similar to, but about half
the size of, the Hauzdar fort, and much more decayed. The highest wall
standing was apparently that of a masjid. There were the ruins of a smaller
fort a little way off to the east, and every here and there could be seen
remains of former buildings scattered about for several miles. All were
of sun-dried brick, and though the ruins, and in fact the country generally,
is strewn every here and there with fragments of pottery usually found in
such places, I only saw one or two bits of burnt brick, and the guide could
give me no clue to any ruins of burnt brick. Standing on the top of the
fort there was a waste of tamarisk jungle, some six feet in height, as far
as the eye could reach over the plain on every side, and an army could
supply itself with firewood from here with ease.
Shallow wells dug in the bed of the nullah afford sweetwater, and camel
grazing is plentiful, but no supplies are procurable, as there is no habita
tion here.
A few nomad Baluchis visit the place in the winter and are then scattered
round, getting their water from rain-pools which are plentiful all about
at the time; but these people leave for the hills in the spriug, and then the
country becomes utterly deserted.
All these villages, now in ruins, such as Haozdar, Machi, Kundur, and
Ramrud, etc., drew their water, in former days, from the Tarakun Canal,
which took off from the Helmand some 80 miles or so higher up the river
than Band-i-Seistan in Afghan territory.— {C. E. Yate, 1894..)
RIGKUH—
A range of hills crossed on the road between the Harud Rud and Chah-i-
Sa-gak. It is composed of red granite streaked quartz, in a hollow on its
south slope, in a mass of loose red sand; hence its name “ The Sandy
Hill.”—( Belleto. )
RINDAN—
A village of about 30 huts in Seistan, to the right of the road from
Boleh to Silian, on the southern edge of the Naizar swamp. This is
the last habitation of Seistan proper, which ends at the Naizar.— {Belleio,
Napier.)