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RECENT JOURNEYS IN PERSIA.
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to scale the great peak, from our camp at Basman village, but at last
we arrived at the summit, and set up the plane-table at an altitude of
11,210 feet above the sea. We were on what is generally supjiosed to be
an extinct volcano, and it is interesting to note that even here there is
a legend of a saint called Kedr, who still lives in the mountain, just
as in Greek mythology a giant is imprisoned beneath Etna. The moun
tain is locally termed Kuh-i-Zendeh, or the “ Mountain of the Living
Man.”
Upon returning to Basman, we enjoyed excellent moufflon-shooting,
until the Farman Farma sent some of his transport for our use, and
we rejoined him at Bampur. In his company, we travelled along the
THE LAJJI VALLEY ON THE BELT!CH-KALAT FRONTIER.
unexplored tract of country where the Bampur river and the Halil Bud
mingle their waters in the Jaz Morian. Additional interest was felt
by us, knowing it to have been the road that Alexander the Great used
in his march from India.
Upon arrival in Budbar, we turned northwards and left the Farman
Farma, in order to explore the site of Marco Polo’s “Camadi,” where the
china exhibited, together with the seals and other curios, were found.
We came upon a huge area littered with yellow bricks 8 inches square,
while not even a broken wall is left to mark the site of what was
formerly a great city, under the name of the Shehr-i-Jiruft.
It was now late in March, so we were only too glad to traverse the
Jabal Bariz range and gain the elevated plateau of Iran, and, just a year