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No. 3230, dated Camp Baghak, the 14th June 1905 (Confidential).
From Colonel A. H. McMahon, C.S.I., C.I.E., British Commissioner, Seistan
Arbitration Commission,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India m the Foreign Department.
I have the honour to forward herewith two maps of Mirjawa.
2. One is on a scale of 2"=1 mile and represents merely the country of
Mirjawa itself, i.e. t that between the old ruined village of that name and our
new post, called by us Padaha, but known locally only as Killa Safed.
3. The second map is one on a scale of 1"=4! miles of the country round
Mirjawa.
4. I beg that these two maps may be sent for reproduction in colours,
i.e., outline in black, hills in brown, irrigation channel in blue, and cultivation
in green. For this purpose, three separate traces are sent with the l - '=4-mile
map and two traces with 2 /r =l mile map, the latter containing no hills. As
the number of copies to be printedVill probably be few and the amount of
blue and green colouring small, it may be found more convenient to paint in
these two colours by hand. The figures of latitude and longitude in the
l' r =4-mile map and the titles and notes in both maps should be inserted in
proper type. It was not possible to have suitable lettering executed in our
Camp Office.
Telegram from Sir Arthur Hard in ee, dated the 14th May
lt05.
Telegram to Sir Arthur Hard Inge, No. 979, dated the 17th
Haj 1905.
Telegram from Sir Arthur Hardinire, dated the 22nd May 1905.
Telegram to Sir Arthur Havdiuge, dated the 28th Hay 1905.
5. To explain the purpose of
these maps, I attach copies of
the marginally noted correspond
ence between Sir Arthur
Hardinge and myself.
6. I beg that copies of this map may be sent to Sir Arthur Hardinge.
7. I have endeavoured to throw some light on the topography of Mirjawa
in my Diary entry of 25th May 1905, to which I invite a reference.
8. The 2"= 1 mile map shows the manner in which the dry bed of the
Ladis or Mirjawa River splits up into innumerable and almost indistinguishable
branches before reaching the bed of the Dar-i-Ghiaban nulla. It shows the
difficulty of fixing upon any particular point as the junction of the Ladis or
Mirjawa River and the Dar-i-Ghiaban.
9. There is no line at present recognised as the boundary from the Dar-
i-Ghiaban to the watershed of the Mirjawa hills (vide Sir Arthur Hardinge*s
telegram of 22nd May 1905), An arbitrary line drawn from any point on
the Dar-i-Ghiaban, a little north of our Padaha post (Killa Safed) to the
watershed, would probably suffice for all practical purposes.
10. I would suggest that a copy of this letter be sent to Sir Arthur
Hardinge when forwarding to him copies of the above maps.