'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎60] (225/524)

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CO REMARKS ON THE TRIBES, & c . 1
consumption. But I am ill-acquainted with this line, although I fj n( |
among my recollections a passing visit, that the walls of Baghdad
appeared to have been built for a bigger city, and that there were few
trading craft on the Tigris.
88. Similar remarks would apply with increased force to any route
running North from Baghdad towards the Kurds.
89. If to the foregoing glance along these routes I might add a
fact or two drawn from personal observation, I would remark, that
I met comparatively little traffic between Trebezond and Tabreez •
although Tabreez itself seemed a considerable commercial town, with
well-cultivated environs. The road from Tabreez to Teheran was as un
frequented, until one arrived at Casween, the nearest town of any
importance to the capital. Between Teheran and Meshed I met very
few caravans, and they were principally engaged in carrying dead
bodies or pilgrims from Bokhara and Meshed to Kurbella, Nejd, and
Mecca ; or in carrying pilgrims Eastwards to the shrine at Meshed.
From Meshed to Herat and from Herat through Furrah to Ghiriska
on the Helmund I did not meet a single Kafla ; although I came on
the track of one, which was utterly destroyed next morning near Laush
Jowain, and although I met at the Kohi Doozdan on the Kash Road
the Seistanees, who had a night or two before smitten the only Kafla
they had been able to fall in with.
90. Between Candahar, Quetta, Khelat, and the head of the Bolan,
I met now and then a string of camels ; * but I found between Khozdar
ana Kurrachee a larger bulk of goods on camels than I had met along
the entire route from Meshed to Khozdar ; I might perhaps add from
even Teheran to Khozdar. I fling these facts out, without wishing to
strain them into a theory for determining the proportions of trade
along any given distance. And it is possible, had I returned to Teheran,
the facts might have been different.
91. I think, however, ail circumstances considered, that trade, if
left free, or even if only moderately harrassed, should be able, when
landed at Bunder Abbass, to command the markets of Kerman and
lezd^ the latter one of the wealthiest and most enterprising towns in
* I went half way down the Moolla
U was in December,
Pass, but I did not meet any traffic there,
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