'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country' [‎9v] (23/302)

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The three
hainuns.
General des
cription of
riv.ers.
The Kaisar
river.
The Bulo
river.
The Lora Ha-
mun.
There are several other smaller isolated peaks of volcanic origin
in the vicinity. °
Rivers,
None of the rivers find an outlet to the sea, but all except two
flow into or towards a hamvn or lar^e lake swamp, and therefore
the description of the river system can be most simply arranged
according 1 to the drainage of the hamivs.
The large hamnns are three in number, viz.:—
(1) The Lora Hamun in the Chagai district.
(3) The Hamun-i-Mashkel in the south of Western Sinja-
rani district. J
(3) The Gaud-i Zirreh which, politically speaking, is not
within the limits of llaluchistan, but geographically
pertains to it.
The rivers which drain into these hatnuns, as might bo expect
ed in a country 0 f so scanty and intermittent a rainfall, a.- e , gen
e-ally speaking, no more than torrent beds, filled with a flood after
rain in the hills. These floods are dangerous, sometimes carrying
away flocks and camels. They rise very suddenly and owino- to the
steep fall of the torrent beds they come down with great force and
nre of short duration, their stony beds becoming quite dry in a
few hours. There are very few streams with a constant flow of
water, but, as a rule, water appears for some hundreds of yards
and then disappears, to reappear a mile or two further down, as is
tae case with most rivers of Baluchistan.
Wherever a river-bed is, however there water may be found
by digging a few feet below the surface.
1 lie two rivers that do not flow into any hamun are the Kai-
sar and the Bulo.
c O -5r aisar ” se f in S; ‘rlat range, and collects the drainage
of South-Western Shorarud and the Kishingi valley. Its three chief
tributaries are the Singbur, the Galangur, and the Ghori streams.
lor the last 4- miles of the Galangur water, almost perennial,
runs m its bed, and, after its junction with the Singbur, the water
is perennial and flows in a very fine stream. Many parts of the
bed are covered with so thick a tamarisk jungle that a way can only
be forced through with difficulty. J
1 i h £T Ki * i ?? r river serves to irrigate about 3,000 acres of land
around Nushki town.
at ri T x? Bul ° rivei ’ is 1pss im P° rtant - It rises in the Western
Malik Naru range, in the southern dopes of Saruma near the Kahi-
bo pass It is formed by the junction of the Talarar. and Gurg.i-
rok naln* Passing west of Kisan Chapir it serves to ini-
gate a portion of the Dalbandm plain. In the last 4, or 5 miles of
its course its bed is well covered with tamarisk jungle, and an abun
dant growth of grass.
j, . T 1 he ,ies a bout 8 miles due east of Chagai fort.
It is about 35 miles long and 4- to 9 miles broad. It is a bare plain
of hard baked clay, destitute of vegetation and impregnated with
salts, over which the Lora river flood-water lodges, until dried by