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SADAKL —
A village of 100 houses, on the Shela Kafir canal in about the centre of the
Sheb-i-Ab district.
The inhabitants are of the Kakha, Ghilzai, and Shahriari clans.
Resources .—Eight ploughs of cultivated land, 8 horses, 20 cattle, 50
sheep and goats, 10 camels, and 45 donkeys.
SEH KAJjA (pronounced SEH RALA),—
A village of 32 houses, in Pusht-i-Ab near the point where all the large
canals of that district leave the Rud-i-Hasinki and Rud-i-Eunjar.
The village, which consists of poorly constructed huts, is built on three
small mounds, whence its name is derived.
The inhabitants are chiefly of the Panjkah and Bomari clans, and 12
tents of Naotani and Panjkah are attached to the village.
Resources .ploughs of cultivated land, 3 horses, 56 cattle, 350 sheep,
2 camels, and 25 donkeys.
SEHKOHA, pronounced “SAKWA” by uneducated Seistanis.—
This village, which comprises some 300 houses, is the chief village of the
Mahabi-Sehkoha. As its name implies, it is built upon three adjoin
ing hills rising from low ground at the foot of the ridge which bounds the
cultivated area of Seistan on the south and south-east. The village has
seen better days, and the loopholed walls, strengthened by bastions at close
intervals, are in a decaying condition, as well as the high walls built to
protect the numerous fruit gardens and fields from the wind. There is
excellent camel grazing to the north and west of the village, where a
large number of Baluch and Seistani encampments are scattered, with
numerous herds and flocks.
There is now a detachment of 50 infantry or li Sarbazi ” quartered in
Sehkoha, where Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Purdil Khan, Sarbandi, is said to have an immense
amount of grain stored.
The latter is the Katkhuda of the Mabal-i-Sehkoha, which consequently
is under the Sarbandis, but the inhabitants are so mixed that it would be
difficult to enumerate all the clans represented in the village.
Resources .—Twelve ploughs of arable land, 15 horses, 150 cattle, 200
sheep and goats, 300 camels, and 200 donkeys.
SHARAK.—
A village of 60 bouses, in the extreme east of the Sheb-i-Ab district, built
on the banks of the Rud-i-Sheb-i-Ab. There is excellent camel grazing
near the village.
Resources .—Nine ploughs of cultivated land, 2 horses, 20 cattle, 60
sheep and goats, and 30 donkeys.
SHAGHALAK.—
Is a small Mahal of about ten villages in Miankangi, which is subsidiary to
the Mahal of Siadak. As the names of all the villages of this Mahal are
liable to alter, and the position of some of them to change, they are not
enumerated.
SHAHRISTAN.—
A poorly-built village of 70 houses, in the Mahal-i-Nahrui, situated on the
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