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'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country' [69v] (143/302)
The record is made up of 1 volume (147 folios). It was created in 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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134
return journey, except for big, strong horses : men could not do it and
were carried into a deep rapid and obliged to swim.
Rough sketch of Ashkin-Chilmarez ford.
Fort
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+ A
+ shallow
+ rapid /$'
Bad rapid
3
C
x
+
+
Deep
• •1 •7 > 7
• / / • tti,,
+ Sandbank
' # V ' ' * ' / /
/ / ^ ^
+
Branch about go yards wide.
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Sand-hills.
. “ Bed shingle, depth very uniform throughout. A mark for the ford
is that if the depth at the little rapid marked A does not exceed i± feet
or i \ feet, then the ford will not be over 4 feet and the passage will be
practicable. Landing very good on the left bank, but requires to be
improved on the right/'
Afanai.—One ford.
Chahar Burjak. —Two fords.
Bandar-i-Kamal Khan.—IAv. Johns saysThe ford is about half a
mile above Deh-i-Dost Muhammad and opposite the village of Bandar-i-
Kamal Khan. It is most suitable for a crossing from left bank to right, as
the slope of the ford is in the direction of the current which crosses from
left to right.
“ Bottom shingle, except possibly immediately under the left bank
where the river was deepest. The deepest portion is under the village
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A report, marked as secret, on the area of Nushki, Chagai, and Western Sinjarani. The report was compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department. The report was commenced in 1897 by Captain R E Roome, 6th Bombay Cavalry (Jacob's Horse), and revised and completed by Major W C Walton, 104th Wellesley's Rifles, Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General in 1903. It was printed at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla, in 1904.
The report includes a preface by Colonel John E Nixon, Assistant Quarter Master General, Intelligence Branch (folio 5) and a glossary of vernacular terms used (folio 6). The main body of the report contains chapters on geography, communications, fortified posts and forts, climate, sanitation, resources, ethnography, history, administration, and military strength.
The second part of the report includes a gazetteer of topographical and ethnographic information (folios 36-127) and appendices covering wells, canals, and meteorology, and including a report on the signalling stations of the Dalbandin-Robat line, with sketches (folios 131-147).
The volume includes the following maps:
- Map of Southern Baluchistan (folio 2)
- Sketch Map of Signalling Line from Dalbandin to Robat (folio 148)
- Map of Persian Seistan [Sistan] Cultivated Area (folio 149).
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- 1 volume (147 folios)
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The volume includes a table of contents (folios 5-6) with reference to the original pagination.
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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 149; 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.
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