'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country' [‎119r] (242/302)

SHER SHAH NAWAR.— Lat. 29 0 38'; Long. 65° 37'; Kiev,
About 30 miles from Nushki on the road to Mamu.
SHIBIAN PASS.—Lat. 29 0 35' ; Long. 64° 37'; Elev. 4,780'.
A pass over the Western Malik Naru range on the Afghan-Baluch
frontier at boundary pillar No. 161. It is crossed by the road from Chagai
to Shah Ismail, being about 12 miles south-east of the latter place.
SHIKAR RIVER—
One of the numerous nalas which drain from the north towards
Hamun-i-Mashkel and are lost in the sand before reaching the Hamun.
It joins the Amuri nala about 4 miles north of Paniham.
SHINGRO.—Lat. 29° I2'; Long. 62° 57'; Elev.
A nala that takes its rise in the ancient crater of Koh-i-Sultan, flows
north for 6 miles, then bends east and finishes in the desert by
flowing south-east, draining the eastern slopes of the Koh-i-Sultan. It is
generally a dry na/a; but in the summer of /•'“pS after a heavy fall of rain
on the Koh-i-Sultan, the torrent rushed down it sweeping away a man with
his family, who had pitched their camp in its bed. The torrent also
carried away their huts, 100 sheep and goats and a few camels along
with their owners. (Roomc.)
SHORAKIN—Lat. 29 0 30'; Long. 64° 5'; Elev.
A halting-place about 3 miles west of Samuli mountain in Afghanistan
on the road from Gurgarok to Mamu.
SHORO —
A halting-place in the Palez nala, 1 mile upstream from where it enters
the Duzdap plain. Here there is an old well 8 feet deep, but partly fallen
in ; there were some dead sheep and a camel in it. The well is close to
a ziarat erected to Pir Sultan. A little lower down the nala-bzd.
there is every appearance of water being close to the surface, and there
is some tamarisk and nal grass growing here. There are a couple of
small cairns on the low hills to the west, erected apparently to mark the
spot.
P. C bearings—
To Kachakoh . . . 59 °
„ Larkoh ... 2°
Camping-ground. —Ample space near.
Supplies. —Nil.
Camel-grazing. —Abundant on Duzdap plain.
Grass. —Nil.
Water.—C qu\& be obtained by digging shallow pits in the «tf/tf-bed,
but uncertain and dependent on the rainfall.
Fuel .— Tagaz abundant on Duzdap plain. {Rooms.)
SHORO—
A well which lies about 2\ miles west of Nawab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. Khan Chah, and near
Nok Chah well on the route from Galur to Landi. It is one of a line of
wells extending eastward in an almost unbroken line of 60 miles or
more, most of them near one another, and from each group of two or three
wells tracks take off to the Helmand. {Webb-Warei)