'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country' [‎99v] (203/302)

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kan-
mud
miro nawar— .. .. , . , t
About I mile north-east of Zahro. comta.ns beau .fully clear water, but
it is salter than sea water and no animal will touch it.
MIRUI or MERUI T .
The tenth stage on the trade-route, 160 miles from Nushki.
T t ^ n the Mazan Nuhli Rod, and is marked by a grove of large padag
V '"me ,2 in number in the midst of a thick jungle of jhow and wil-
f trls Here the vvater issues from the ground in many places and
low trees. H c re . , - n n . improus r ills. Half a mile down-stream an
runs through the jun & carries water to a patch of cul-
0ld "T ThU^ is'saidto^have bernthl work of P Arabs, but
tivable soil. 1 his Art , jnd This would make an excel-
has not heen uscd or a vcr ; found running in streams,
^ wdHup'pCd fair'ly clean water ; in the remainder it was di,
C °Woo 1 sutdenTin quantity and size to hut .,000 men. A levy than,
post is placed ^ ve ‘ u0 . stream i n «rt/rt-bed, commanded by hills
either^de^ ‘ These are easily accessible from nala side.
-Good and abuncant in sma „ quantities.
^Caffwl’grcizing .—Very abundant ; and i in the spring
dar grass. , ,
»»- 3 “--jntrsfa-
towers and a ' P rj . i flour-mill here. In 1903
hill overlooking the thana. there ' i on the hill south of and
a signalling heliographic station was es abl.shed on t ^ h '^”" ndix Vt)
overlookinl the thana at about , mde distant. Appe
(Raome—Webb-U are— Gordon—Scudamore.)
MITKOH.-Lat. 29 ° ' l' S Lon g- 62 ° 2 7' i E,ev - ?’ 934 '- ,... b t ,
A solitary conical hill standing in the midst of . san ^' S nd ab0U 5
miles nortl/of Amir Chah 0,1 the road to Rudbar Heln ° h ^ d - wate r.
There are several nawars close to it that sometim
(ftoome.)
M 1 ZZIL OR MANZIL—
More generally known by the native J s . as / Ilzzll, Am ; r ch „u an d Dalban-
A halting-place on the northern road between Amir Ch h^ amidst
din, 43 miles from former. A depiessi - 'iiorth-west to
sand dunes 1,000 yards long by 2 oo wide and running
“itTat’er in it is absolutely unfit to drink owing to the ^^gof
turated with the de/ecta oi goats and cal J' e ' s j^ h 0 ” e sl ^ t e h V A fetid stench
a dark blood colour and coagulated with a fiUhy sb»e a hea ,y
arisesandtherearemyr.adsoffl.es. This water nrieo p
sand-storm on the 8th April 1903. .i;^ CT ; nf r a email nit 3 feet deep at
Some drinkable water 1S ob amable , b y. d ' gg ' n n g d a h :n s where the sur^ e
north-west corner of nauar close under the sand-hills wfiere