"إضافات إلى دليل بلاد فارس، المجلدات II إلى IV." [و‎‎٣‎٩] (٣٧٠/٧٧)

CHESTERNA—Yol. IV, page 90.
A caravanfarai and cistern both in good repair, and the latter full of
sweet water, miles from Bandar Abbas on the road to Lar,
Supplies
Water
Fuel
Cultivation
Grazing
Camping-grounds
Mil.
From one cistern.
Moderate from small bush and bram
bles.
Nil.
Very poor, from thin, dried up, yellow
grass.
Good.— {Butchery April 1888).
KHAN A STJRKH—Vol. IV, page 227.
A caravansarai and a large cistern, 11 miles from Bandar Abbas on the
road to Lar.— [Butchery April 1888).
GULISTAN—Vol. IV, page 146.
A large date grove and three or four mat houses, 7| miles from Bandar
Abbas on the road to Lar.
Practically nil.
Believed to be procurable; but in what quantity
and of what quality is uncertain.
Moderate from brushwood and date trees.
Dates flourish ; wheat and barley would however
by native report, appear to be poor, and of small
extent.
Very scanty indeed.
Good.
{Butcher, April 1888).
Supplies
W'ater
Fuel
Cultivation
Grazing
Camping-ground
SARU—Vol. IV, page 860,
A village about 3 miles from Bandar Abbas on the road to Lar. Situated
about a quarter of a mile to the south of the road, from which it is screened
by groves of date trees, and at its south-east corner by a thick growth of
tall kahur trees. In,'mediately to the south of the road is a long, low mound
of some considerable area, covered with a jungle of kahur, &c., and to the
north small, well-kept plantations of young date trees, surrounded by neat
mud-brick walls.
The village is open to the sea-breeze. Its houses glancing white through
the screen of trees, aie apparently constructed of stone and lime.