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'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country' [75r] (154/302)
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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Johishah is the ^th stage on the direct route f-rnPan, g ur to Sedsta.
The halting-place on the Mashke ‘ n ® a V h the sixth stage, is about 12
ndles^ver^goodopen'ro'ad^ There is abundance of water here, but no
fuel or camel forage. u road from Talk to Washuk.
the hills through Tank Zorati. {MacGregor.)
JUFTAK WATER.— Lat. 29 ° 2 6 ' i Lon g' 6 -*° 50 ' ; El V ' . . ,, ,
About 9 miles north by east of Chagai on the western edge of the
Lora Hamun.
)UH A^ and two wells passed the road from Butak to Chah-San
dan in the Juhli Kaur, 6 f e e "t diameter, but in .903
here 11 feet from surface, 2 f eet deep, 3 1 the we]ls were fu ,i of sandi
and a th t e 0 tocal h peo t pIe Mid there had been no water here for some years.
Th !n e^Mmpmen^^ix 0 ^- 6 ;^ pitched close by and about 30
camels and 2° goats were grazmj:.re a few clumps of jhow and a fair
quantify odrslol and rega grass, and the grows in profusron.
S upp li N il.
S«^ ar S-In abundance. Grass in some quantity.
Camping-ground.— good. (Roome.)
TUJAKKI.—-Lat. 28° 52' ; Long. 64° 4' ; Elev.
J A halting-place on the northern road from Dalbandm to Mirui and
reached at the mile. _ .
- Ti 'i -; ss "Sf as. nas . •ft.'ssss
re S re U is 300 yards wide with a certain amount of tamarisk, ia«a, and
p?sh growing in its bed which is stony. {Roome.)
IUJ AKK! NALA— Qat-i-Hamun and is one of the tributaries
Takes its r.se to ^ n °™ ts bed 2 feet below the surface is salt.
0 No water rnre^praUertcrVheavy rain. There is a large quantityof
tamarisk in its bed. {Roome.)
__ f v.p roa( l f r om the Mulla pass to Shan
dak
System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company.
and the
^ h a a ' d ng 'l? f s ,07 miles distant from Pishak in Dalbandin and 9 from
L'lk' The camping-ground is in a ravine of the same name in
S nvh rLre is a laT/e pool of brackish water, said never to dry entire-
Ty!" F^d mnl camef^age are scarce, and there is no grass. (Mac
Gregor.)
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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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