'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country' [‎68r] (140/302)

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What water there is is very salt and undrinkable. The greater part
of the Hamun is covered with a white efflorescence, which is almost
blinding to the naked eye.
Not a tree or even a shrub exists to break the monotony ; and, strange
as it may appear, herds of wild asses (locally called by the Persian
gorkhar znA by the Baluch roam the Hamun, living apparently on
the stunted grass which grows in ruts. The animals are extremely
shy, and cannot be approached even within rifle shot; the only method
which proves occasionally successful is to run them down on horse-
v back. About 24 miles north-east of Galugah, in Mashkel and in the
Hamun, an exhaustible supply of good, hard salt exists, locally called
Wad-i-Sultan, Wad in Baluchi signifying ‘ salt. ’ It is spread over an
area of about 2 square miles, and, free of all payment, is utilised by all
tribes within a radius of 15® miles. [Duhmad Ah Khan.')
HAMUN KAUR—
A ravine and halting-place on the road from Meski on the Mashkel
river to Shandak, distant 91 miles from the former and 58 from the
latter place. Abundance of good water is to be obtained by scraping
a few inches anywhere in the bed, and there is also plenty of fuel and
a poor quality of camel forage, but no grass. [MacGregor.)
HAODAKAN—
A halting-place on the Kharan-Chagai road, about 4 nniles north
east of Dalbandin post.
HAOLAK.—Lat. 28° 47'; Long. 64° 59’; Kiev.
A halting-place, about 6 miles west of Raloi pass, in the Shekh
Hussen range on the road from Kharan to Chagai.
HARUNI.—Lat. 29 0 28' ; Long. 65° 59 ' I Elev -
A small village on a kavcz of the same name that takes its rise on
northern slopes of Koh-i-Jorakian and irrigates Baghak plain. (Roome.)
HAZARGUNL—Lat. 29 0 32'; Long. 64° 18' ; Elev.
On the Afghan-Baluch boundary line between boundary pillars Nos.
161 and 162.
HELMAND RIVER—
The portion of the Helmand valley between Landi Muhammad Amin
and the Band-i-Seistan was traversed by the Seistan Arbitration Com
mission in January 1903, and the following report is compiled, to a
great extent, from notes furnished by the following members of the Com
mission, viz. : Mr. G. R. Ward, Public Works Department, Mr. G. R.
Tate, Survey of India, Major Walters, 24th Baluchistan Infantry, and
Captain Webb-Ware, Political Department.
In describing the actual river between Landi Muhammad Amin and the
General description of Band-i-Seistan, it is perhaps advisable to treat it
the river. in two separate parts, viz.:—~
(1) from Landi Muhammad Amin to Kala-i-Fath,
(2) from Kala-i-Fath to the Band-i-Seistan,
as both these portions present widely different characteristics.