The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume IX, No. 4 [‎212r] (94/172)

THE SOUTHERN BORDERLANDS OF AFGHANISTAN.
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down to sleep on the sand not very far from me, Dr. Maynard made
some remark about the ground sounding curiously hollow, and in fact
kept me awake, as I thought, unnecessarily long propounding theories
for this phenomenon. His theories, it turned out, were wrong, and he
didn’t solve the question until after he had gone to sleep. When I
woke next morning he was gone. It appears he had gone to sleep on
a huge anthill, and was almost eaten alive.
Striking from Amir Chah across the desert westwards, we reached
the Saindak and Kacha range of mountains, which run in a long line
THE NEZA-I-SCLTAN.
north-west and south-east along the Persian border. Here we found
abundant supplies of water, and here, too, we met a few nathes
of the country, and got some meat from them, which we were badly
in want of. We had up to this seen only three natives of the
country for a space of nine weeks. Boundary work, however, took
us down into the desert again to Godar-i-Shah, at the western extremit}
of the God-i-zirreh. The God-i-zirreh is a large lake of clear, deep blue
water, some 25 miles long and 5 miles wide, standing in the midst of a
wide margin of solid salt. It used to be fed by flood-water from the