مجموعة ٢٨/ ٥٦ "بلاد فارس. شؤون الحدود الفارسية-التركية والفارسية-الروسية. طريق رواندز التجاري." [و‎‎٢‎٠] (١٥٤/٣٩)

This officer proved obstructive, and at first did not want
to let me go any further at all without telephoning for orders
to Sauj-Bulaki He then hinted that my luggage strapped on
the car possibly contained contraband; and did not want me to
approach the frontier unless I unstrapped it all and left it at
Khaneho Finally he agreed to let me retain my luggage and
proceed, but only on condition that I took one of his soldiers
in the car and did not cross the frontier*
It proved useless to protest to this officer that it was
to the Persian interest that I should see exactly what had been
done in construction work, that I had a special recommendation
from the Director of the Hoad Department for Azerbaidjan* for
this ranker officer had no respect for the Hoad Department or
anyone or anything except his Superior Officer at sauj-Bulak
and his orders 0
I, therefore a only went on as far as the crest of the last
pace, whence a sharp descent led to a small plain with the vil
lage of Hayat nestling behind a small hill at the further side
of this plain*
5 0 From Khaneh the only real steep ascent in the Persians
section starts; and it is a very impressive one indeed*
At the crest a walk of about 10 yards enables one to
command uninterrupted views up to the Iraq frontier and back
over the plain of the Livan Ch&i*
6 * The descent towards the Iraq side is much more gradual
than that on the Persian, and there are only 5 acute hair-pin
turns; but on the Persian side there are 14 single hair-pins
and one double hair-pin while the road about 450 metres
in this short stretch of 7,200 metres*