Afghanistan; Asia, Central -- Description and travel; Eastern question (Central Asia)
12. _Sturanisa_ (7 kos).--Over an undulating plain; no
cultivation; villages deserted; water procurable from wells;
this spot belongs to the Tokhi Ghilzais.
13. _Kirshutu ke Kala_ (6 kos).--Road good, country level, but
only inhabited by wandering Babars; water from “karez.”
14. _Topan_ (6 kos).--Over a plain; here is one well but no
cultivation. The country belongs to Babars.
15. _Lowana Karez_ (7 kos).--Over a plain; Lowana is a small
village surrounded by cultivation.
16. _Gharabi Dara_ (6 kos).--Halting-ground at the entrance to
the pass; water procured by digging in the bed of a ravine where
it is always to be found close to the surface.
17. _Lari_ (6 kos).--The name of a plain occupied by a tribe of
Kakars. Road through a long darah flanked by low hills; water
from springs.
18. _Trikhghaz_ (7 kos).--This place consists of 30 or 40 houses
of the Jhunirian tribe. Country hilly and barren.
19. _Mukhal_ (6 kos).--An encamping ground; road passes through
a long defile; water procured from a small stream, a tributary
of the Gomul.
20. _Mamukhani_ (8 kos).--A long and tiresome march, for five
kos through a narrow defile, commanded by lofty heights;
the path then debouches on the Mamukhani plain, occupied by
Mandukhels and Nasrs.
21. _Kharkhandi_ (6 kos).--Here are a few villages in the midst
of cultivation belonging to Mandukhels and Nasrs. Road generally
through a hilly country along the bed of the Kundar stream.
22. _Gasta_ (6 kos).--Still along the bed of the stream; this
spot which is only an encamping-ground without houses belongs to
the Mandukhels.
23. _Husen Nika_ (7 kos).--A halting-place at the Ziarat of
Husen, where the Kholdad Khel and Suliman Khel Ghilzais come
down to trade and barter with the Lohanis. From here two roads
strike off, one to Ghwalari and the other to Zhob.
24. _Damandar_ (7 kos).--A halting-place watered from a spring
on the water-shed line between the Kundar and Gomul streams;
this day’s march is a difficult one, through a rugged dara, at
the end of which a high kotal has to be ascended.
25. _Kanzur._--The first halting-place in the Waziri country on
the banks of the Gomul. Caravans are frequently attacked by the
Waziris in all the routes through their portion of the country,
where there are no villages, but only well-known halting-places,
named as here shown. The road in this march is down a steep
descent, and then along the bed of the Gomul river.
26. _Ramtaj_ (7 kos).--Along the bed of the Gomul.
27. _Kotghai_ (7 kos).--Along the bed of the Gomul.
28. _Kirkani_ (9 kos).--Along the bed of the Gomul; 2 kos from
Kotghai is the Tol dara, a narrow but well cultivated glen,
inhabited by Taftani Povindahs, who are on friendly terms with
the Waziris.
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