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Supplies very poor. There are a few flocks of sheep and goats. Ther®
is a good stream of water. About 10 miles south-east on the road to
Niriz a peculiar isolated white peak rises, making a good landmark.—
[Slotherd, June lb93.)
HUSENABAD.—Vol. Ill, page 270.
81 miles north-west of Niriz, one of a cluster of small walled villages,
dotted all along the valley, with an average population of 1 00 each. In
a good year supplies of all sorts are obtainable, but for some years past
swarms of locusts have done great damage. There is a good water-supply
and plenty of good camping-ground, and abundance of firewood on the
neighbouring hills.— (Slotherd, June 1893.)
BUKUN.—Vol. Ill, page 109.
15 miles north-west of Arsinjan, a fair sized village, affording supplies
of all sorts, though for some years past locusts have caused much loss.—
(Stotherd, June 1893.)
SIVAND.—Vol. Ill, page 617.
A telegraph station on the main caravan road.— [Stotherd, 1893.)
BUSHAHIt to JAM RUM.— Vol. Ill, page 156.
A level sandy strip of over 30 miles broad, studded with date plantations.
General character of runs along the coast near Rushahr, only broken
country. ky one long ridge beginning near Gurek, and
following in direction the main mountain system, of which it is an outlying
part. The mountain ranges have a uniform direction of north-west to south
east. They are bare and rocky, and rise higher in successive ranges inland
from the sea, the altitude of the intermediate valleys also increasing the fur
ther they are from the coast. The country is very sparsely populated, about
15 miles being the average distance between villages, while in some cases it
is over 20. Numerous ruins show signs of a former prosperity, but at the
present day there is very little that is not desert. There are no tees, and
only a few scattered thorn bushes in places, and nothing much else in the
way of vegetation, except that after the rains there is a crop of grass which