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Supplies. —Nil.
Grass. —N il.
Camel-grazing.—Good on the Malikaf plain to the north.
Fuel. —In the shape of small bushes plentiful.
Camping-ground* —On the plain to the north good and open. {Roome.)
HABLAK KAUR—
A water-course in North-West Baluchistan, which is traversed by the
Pirpuchi road from Kharan to the Helmand, a few miles distant from the
Pirpuchi kotal, about 61 from Zard and 14I from Nokinawara
{O'Donnell.)
HA 1 BAT ZIARAT OR ZIARAT-I-MIR HAIBAT
A shrine formed of stones between Charasiaf in Nushki and Sinabur
Chaman r about 27 miles from the latter place. {Maitland )
HAJI KUCHI—
A halting-place on the road from Kharan to Gulugah and Jalk it is
the fourth stage (74 miles) from Kharan and 83 miles from Gulugah’ {a. v ).
{Native information?) ° *'
HAKDAD KANI WELL.—Lat. 28° 45*-Long. 64° 28'; Elev.
At the junction of the Doki and Gazi nalas south of Dalbandin plain
HAKIM WAL RIVER— F *
Runs about 3 miles west of and parallel to the Lora river from Paprin?
to the Hamun. ^ b
HALA (OR BRAHUIK) RANGE—
The great mountain system of Baluchistan extending from its
secondary root, the Suhman, by the curved Bugti and Mari chain to the
north of Quetta and thence m a generally south-south-west direction
towards the Indian Ocean, which it reaches at Ras Mawari (Cane Mon.el
from about north latitude 30" 3 o> , 4 ° 4 6'. In bVaffi bend's
in the north from the plains of Kachi to Nushki on the borders of the
Seistan desert; in the centre to the Persian mountain system • whilst at
its southern extremity it is only a few miles across. The height of" this
elevated region varies in a similar manner. The greatest altitude of its
fl °.i. r “a ^ (ab 7 -T fe6 ’• Where the climat e is European •
southward it decreases rapidly until, in the province of Las it is but a
trifling degree greater than that of Sind. It decreases also ’ northward
the height of Quetta being 5,600 feet or thereabouts. Thouglnhis exten
sive mountain mass may well pass under the general name of the
Brahuik plateau, it has locally other names in the several districts
through which its chains extend. Thus that portion which separates the
highland of Sarawan from the low country of Kach Gandava is known as
the Takari; further south and down to the twentv-sixth narallel of
latitude this same chain is called the Kirthar, and thence to the ocean it
oota.ns the name of the Pabb hills. Similarly other offshoots west of
these are known as the Harbu,, the Dauwaru, and the Hara mountains.
These last form a line of demarcation between the Las and Makran
provinces.