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GAI—GAL
GAIGAN HILL—
A hill in the Jashk district {q.v.).
GAIH— See Geh.
GAIMAN—
A hamlet, 1 mile from Bazman, in Persian Baluchistan.— (SyJces, 1894.)
GAJA TUSK—
A halting-place in Makran, 52 miles north-east of Qasrqand, on the
Sarbaz road.— (Sykes, 1893, from native information.)
GALADUN—
A village in Makran on the Sirha (q.v.).
GALAG— Lat. 25° 29'; Long 59° 20'.
A village in Persian Makran on the east side of the eastern branch of the
delta of the Rapch river, on the coast about 700 yards from the river’s
mouth. Dirty and squalid, it consists of 15 huts of Maids, fishermen.
It is the port of the small Karvan district and trades with Masqat and
Qishm.
An open roadstead; anchorage in 7 fathoms 3 miles from shore; holding
ground good.
A good landing place just inside the entrance of the creek on the east side,
on a steep to beach. Men can land dry-shod. Ships’ boats can enter
creek in fine weather at half-tide. If there is too much sea to enter the
creek, there is a good landing place about mile east of the creek on a good
steep to beach.
There are five boats of 20 tons employed in trade. Fifty date-palms, a few
livestock, and good water easily obtained by digging shallow wells.— (Lori-
mer, 1907 ; Austin, 1910.)
GALANGAUR—
A rocky plain in Sarhad, 15 miles south-west of \axa.\.^-(Sykes, 1894.)
GALCHAH NALA and HALTING-PLACE— Lat. of latter 29° 6' 33";
Long. 60° 37' 35"; Elev. 5,596'.
This ndld is a tributary of the Dizak ndld. A few miles to the north
of this place is the watershed separating the Duzab river draining to the
Mashkid from this system draining to the Kirman desert. The water
here is brackish, and is obtained from two wells a few feet from the surface
of the wa/a-bed (dry in 1906). All the country round (March) is covered with
green grass and wild mint. Camel-grazing and tamarisks are abundant;
also a certain amount of perennial grass. Galchah halting-place is at
mile 149|, on route Sehkuha to Bampur, between Manzilaf and Dukdoh.
— (Jennings, 1885 ; Grey, 1906.)
GAL KAHUR— Elev. 2,100'.
A halting-place in Kirman, situated in the Kudarnai valley, and on the
Rigan-Bandar Abbas road, 16| miles from the former place.
Good water is obtained from the stream, and there is abundance of fuel
and camel-grazing.— (Grey, September 1905.)