"يوميّات رحلة من بلاد فارس إلى الهند عبر هراة وقندهار. وأيضًا تقرير رحلة إلى العاصمة الوهابية، الرياض في وسط الجزيرة العربية" [و‎‎٢‎٧] (٢٦٨/٥٣)

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plain which slopes down to the village of Jullalabad, where our
mountain path again strikes into the main caravan road At the
debouchment of this glen is a watch-tower, so arranged that
the event of incursion the Turcomans can be seen coming own
the glen from a distance. The alarm in such case is immediately
given by the guard stationed permanently at the tower firing o
their matchlocks, and lighting a fire at the summit of the tower ;
the smoke ascending warns the neighbouring hamlets, and these
in turn take up the alarm, and rouse the entire district. After
leaving the glen we sloped gently through cultivated ground or
some mile and ahalf, until we reached our resting-place of Futtehah-
bad, a wall fort, with some poor huts outside. The people were
very civil, and offered me either the Musjid or the best house in
the fort I preferred the latter, as in the event of any fanatical
notion seizing on the village, a night in the former might have
cost me my head. Many Syuds reside in this village. In the
evening the head man of the village, and whose outer rooms 1
occupied, called and smoked.
Sunday the SOfft.-heft Futtehabad an hour before dawn; the
morning very cold, and yet we are in an usually warm plain. The
people 'anticipate that the winter will set in early this year If
so, the sooner we prepare for an icing between Seistan and Can-
dahar the better. After a couple of fursacks we came upon the
village of Jullalabad. Just on the further side of the village our
path joined that of the main caravan line from Turbut Hyderce to
Khaff Another fnrsack or so brought u^to the boundary hamlet
of Maneeabad, thence to Nuseerabad, Ruee, and to the lers.an
Frontier and the Desert towards Ghorian.
The district of Khaff is divided into Bala Khaff, upon which we
are now entering, and Khaff Faieen, or Lower Khaff, '“'“ding ic
old town of Ruee, commonly marked on the maps as Khaff. This
district is held under a sort of hereditary feuda tenure of the
Shah by the tribe of Timoorees, who were settled here, some
eighty or so years ago, by Ahmed Shah Dooranee. Previous to
that period these Timoorees had formed a portion of the tribes
yet bearing this name, but still inhabiting their ori^nal tern-
tory on the flanks of the Faroparmssus.