"أسفار في بلوشستان والسند؛ مع تقرير جغرافي وتاريخي لهذين البلدين، وخريطة." [‎١‎٢‎٢] (٤٧٦/١٦٤)

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CHAPTER VIII.
LETTERS. THE AUTHOR SETS OFF FROM NOOSHKY. GRATIFICATION. PARTY.
ARMS. GOOMBUZ OR CUPOLA IN THE DESERT. CURIOUS TRADITION
RESPECTING A CITY. STONES ON THE SIDE OF THE PATH. ROOSTUM'S
HORSE. LABOUR AND TROUBLE IT MUST HAVE TAKEN TO PLACE THEM.
COUNTRY. — KAREZ VILLAGE. BRAHOOE TOOMUN. NOOSHKY. DISTRICT.
INHABITANTS. SIRDAR. HIS INCOME. WHENCE DERIVED. TOO
MUN. GHEDAN. — MINUTE DESCRIPTION. HINDOO SHOPKEEPERS. AWE
THEY FEEL TOWARDS THE BELOOCHES. BELOOCHE CHARACTER BRIEFLY
STATED. AUTHOR IS ATTACKED BY FEVER. BALE RIVER. ROUTE.
MARBLE. ASAFCETIDA PLANTS. WATER. WOOD. ROUTE AND DISTANCE.
EXTRAORDINARY BUILDINGS DISCOVERED. DESCRIBED. TOMBS OR
PLACES OF WORSHIP. NATIVE OPINION ABOUT THEM. — PROBABLY CORRECT.
THUNDER STORM. —- AUTHOR AND HIS FOLLOWERS SHELTERED FROM IT. —"
HIS APPREHENSIONS. FORTUNATELY UNFOUNDED. TOWN OF SARAWAN.
DESCRIBED. BALE RIVER. — WELL. BADOO RIVER. SOLITARY SHEP
HERD. CHIEF OF SARAWAN. REVENUES. GREAT FERTILITY OF HIS
DISTRICT. LUKH OR PASS ON THE ROAD HENCE TO KELAT. DISTRICTS
PASSED THROUGH. KHARAN DISTRICT. LOCUSTS. REMARKABLE IN
STANCE OF THE SAGACITY OF THOSE INSECTS, AS ASSERTED BY THE NATIVES.
TOWN OF KHARAN. ITS CHIEF. TRIBES. RESOURCES. KHARAN
CELEBRATED FOR CAMELS. SHORT MARCH. SANDY DESERT. HIRE A
SECOND GUIDE ACROSS IT.
11/fARCH 25th. The Sirdar came to the Mihman Khanu this
morning at day break, accompanied by a Moollah, who wrote
three letters that the former dictated to chiefs, of whom I shall here
after have occasion to make mention. The man with the spare
baggage and my letter set off on his return to Kelat immediately
after breakfast, and I quitted Nooshky myself about ten o'clock, with
as much unfeigned joy as I should have felt in escaping from a prison.
My stay there had been protracted by a series of unpleasant delays
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