The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume X, No. 6 [‎100r] (52/186)

RECENT JOURNEYS IN PERSIA.
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Thanks to this, we started off on the third day, leaving onr household
gods to look after themselves, and within a week we had reached Bam,
until recently the frontier fortress of Persia. Everywhere I was shown
the greatest courtesy, so that forage and supplies, which usually are
impossible to collect, were ready at each stage, and from Regan, with
only a day's halt, we were able to load up fifteen extra camels with
all supplies, before crossing that portion of the Easht-i-Lut which lay
between us and Pahra. There my old acquaintance, the Assad-i-
Dowleh, treated us well, and it only took two days to engage thirty
spare camels and to load up supplies for twenty days, as the villages
THE WATER-MILLS OF SHCSTER.
to the east were too small to be counted upon to any great extent.
As far as Magas, we followed the route that we had taken in 1893,
after which we continued nearly due east, reaching the British camp at
Kohuk on February 24, having accomplished the march of 600 miles,
mainly across desert, in forty days.
Sir Hungerford Holdich * has already read an interesting paper about
the geographical side of the frontier commission, during which we
marched with our headquarters as far as Jalk, while excursions were
made to the various points of interest along the frontier. Both at
Jalk and Kohuk we found numerous tombs which were built by the
Kaianian maliks, and which appear among the illustrations. On one
Geographical Journal, vol. ix. p. 41G.