Report No. 73 of 1864 by Lewis Pelly on his journey from Bandar Abbas to Cape Jask reconnoitering the route of the proposed telegraph line [‎1v] (2/20)

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The Stages from Minow to Roodan and Roodbar.
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The Stages from Minow to Kerman through Rood an and Roodbar
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The Route from Bunder Abbass to Lar.
The Route from Bunder Abbass to Kernian.
6. The route between Bumler Abbass and Cape Jashk may be apportioned— t
First. —Into that from Bunder Abbass to Minow, lying nearly due East.
Second. — Into the district of iVlinow itself, stretching round the North-east
angle of the Gulf of Omman ; and
Thirdly. —Into the district known as Biyaban, reaching from the Southern
boundary of Minow to a point a little to the Eastward of Cape Jashk, and
having a general direction of about South South-east.
7. Bunder Abbass and its adjacent shore line to Khameer on the West
and to the Minow district on the East, is under a local Arab Governor directly
subordinate to the Sultan of Muscat. That portion of this shore line which lies
between Bunder Abbass and Minow is a plain, having an average width of from
four to five fursacks, bounded on the South by the sea and on the North by the
mountain ranges, through which lead up the caravan routes to Lar, Ytrzd, and
Kerman. The plain itself may be generally described as arid, saline, and occasional
ly flooded, and rendered impassable for camels after the infrequent showers which
full here during the winter season. It is skirted on the North by date groves, and
dotted at wide intervals with small plantations and temporary huts at such points
as sweet water may be findable. 4 r
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8. The length of the plain from Bunder Abbass to Minow Fort is about twelve
fursacks in a direct line. This length is traversed by five paths, of which the
Northsrumost, known as the Shernil route, clings to the lower spurs of the
hills, and throws off as branches the caravan routes leading up into the interior.
The o-eneral direction of this Northern route is first from Bunder Abbass to the hills
in a North-easterly direction, then Easterly along the hills, and finally South-east
into Minow. Its total length may be twenty fursacks or so. The second path,
known as Dehnow, runs pretty nearly parallel with the first, and at an average distance
ofa fursack to the Southward. Its total length may be eighteen fursacks or so.
A third path, called Delgah or Khoshamedy, runs similarly at a distance of a fursack
or so. ] he fourth path, known as Burkah, being that which I followed, is shorter than
ti.'ose to its Northward, and is the most convenient for halts. It runs in a general
direction of East, at an average distance of a fursack from the sea-shore. The
total length of the line to Fort Minow is between thirteen and fourteen fursacks.
The fifth route follows the shore line as closely as the
Khor-e-Tauzbar.
Tashtaieez. character of the country will allow. This shore line is
indented by three creeks as per margin. This would be i
the most direct route, but owing to the marshy neighbourhood of the creeks, it is
impassable, unless for footmen.
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