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'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country' [39r] (82/302)
The record is made up of 1 volume (147 folios). It was created in 1904. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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65
3 leet wide, and an average ot 0 “J c ° 0 t ; tte r'beh^emptfe'd 0 ' 1 The
sweet and the pool refills m .5 the water is
water-holes at Chugu a The water is good, and was sufficient for
3 feet deep in the upper one he 'V a ter , , have been dug
«ne hill
to MacCiregor and Lock woo _ th^ Trushnat) is a hill somewhere
miles which Maitland considers correct. 1 rushpap
to the west of Arbu and perhaps sometimes ^si desolate as the rest,
The country between Arbu and Samuli is ™ „ Marou an d
but is not a flat plain I here -s sand on the ma^ ^ ^ Tq the
Douglas.)
ARBU KANI.-Lat. S9° 34,: S^fiki and Galla Chah (route
A camping-ground on the ro s icrnifies a water-hole
traversed by the Boundary Commission). ' * $ t of the high
and this is ^'toated under low tg bole 8 or - feet 'in
southern end of Arbu (q-v.). several hundred yards, but
diameter, with a channel running fro n for s " e e ™ a “™ is r about ,
now dry, though showing signs 0 mois ' . The „ u jde declared
S fr^ee^of 1 mu? we e r:^k e :; S f::,n b it, the LeV would then flow. There
is good ground for camping here. {Maitland.)
l:S
The village possesses 35^ Ccittie, 3 »
--"hr:^ x
Khan *is Shagul Khan, Ba uch, head of the nomads of this district o
Western Registan. (Wanliss.) F ,
ASSAD-CHAH —Lat. 29 49 i Long. 63 45 , b •
Four miles north of Galla Chah. j ^ Q; r Nnuro/ Khan
K T C h . e K W of ,S Kh h :r r L’' a As tty" are^ortel fio^ee^dl^ some
difficulty would be experienced in dearing themouL The ivater he e -
said to be better than at Galla Chah. {Roome.) One well has been re
opened in 1901 . {Webb-Ware.)
ASS AXove A o^date-palm trees about 6 miles up the nala bed from Isatahir.
Some g signs oflormer cultivation and an old kare* said to have been
made by the Arabs. {Rooms•)
AZN Ri!in V g E in the northern slopes of the Saruma mountain, flows into the
Robat nala about 3 miles west of Barabchah.
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A report, marked as secret, on the area of Nushki, Chagai, and Western Sinjarani. The report was compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department. The report was commenced in 1897 by Captain R E Roome, 6th Bombay Cavalry (Jacob's Horse), and revised and completed by Major W C Walton, 104th Wellesley's Rifles, Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General in 1903. It was printed at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla, in 1904.
The report includes a preface by Colonel John E Nixon, Assistant Quarter Master General, Intelligence Branch (folio 5) and a glossary of vernacular terms used (folio 6). The main body of the report contains chapters on geography, communications, fortified posts and forts, climate, sanitation, resources, ethnography, history, administration, and military strength.
The second part of the report includes a gazetteer of topographical and ethnographic information (folios 36-127) and appendices covering wells, canals, and meteorology, and including a report on the signalling stations of the Dalbandin-Robat line, with sketches (folios 131-147).
The volume includes the following maps:
- Map of Southern Baluchistan (folio 2)
- Sketch Map of Signalling Line from Dalbandin to Robat (folio 148)
- Map of Persian Seistan [Sistan] Cultivated Area (folio 149).
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- 1 volume (147 folios)
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The volume includes a table of contents (folios 5-6) with reference to the original pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 149; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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