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RECENT TOUR ROUND THE NORTHERN
leaving the main stream, tracked and dragged the canoe alono- a
course, through an immense area of inundated countrv, until I° r
Dorack, the chief town of the Chaab Arabs. In fact the entire <U ^
country contained between the Karoon on the North, Dorack and BunV^
Mashoor on the East and South-eastward, and the IIufFar and Bar *
sheer towards the West, was one unbroken tract of water or swamp 110 "
9. The Chief of Dorack received me suitably.
10. From Dorack I tracked on up the broad canal which rvin
through that town for about 6 miles, and there reached some shiic
which, leading out of the River Gerahee, let down a supply 0 f
for the canal. 11 " ’ c er
11. The Gerabee is a fine stream of water, which leaving; the
mountains m the direction of Ram Hormuz, and from another n per tin
in the Inks, runs (along that portion of its course which I saw) with
easy current, a good silt, and a mid channel of about 8 feet deen
reaching the sea at Boozeeah. 1J
12. I may have passed along this river for a distance of 6 miles
Rs rkht bank^i '1 t0 'u 1 '?, ^ 7 ° r 8 n ° bIe bra "ches from
nght bank. 1 hese off-shoots had been partially improved, and went
pouring down towards the Karoon and Iluffar, giving water to extensive
and the “ C0 “ trib ^ - vast swamp
13 A little lower down than the point on which I came on the
fTsT* 1 Cafled r S0 ° bW8h ' tb - ^rows off other
whence trade is broughUo’LdT 1°? f" ^ ^
moderate sized sea-going native craft " ca,,la 2 e antl shipped.,,
Jh; i erkr;;:;^: Sr a, 7; hi r 1 - - b
date^ trees, and in places alive with Ttois’es ' 186(1 lrreSUlarlj Wi ‘ h
country hiteSedW l ‘''f 06 “i 11 ^ Jun -i eeiab > 1 “arched across a
and so on to Bunded Tt " ^ Nahr-ool-Khatur
fine and unfordable river of ‘hat' thenCe t0 Ilin ‘ ,eean ’ where the
, r n . er 01 that n ame meets the sea.
ao. Crossing the TTinrF^o r
frontier village between the Chaab to ^ hah Ab ° o1 Shah, the
under the Persian r, ' lerntoiy and the districts dircctlv
re. sian Government of Bushire.