"معاملات الجمعية الجغرافية في بومباي. من يناير ١٨٦٣ حتى ديسمبر ١٨٦٤. (تحرير السكرتير.) المجلد XVII." [‎١‎٢‎٧] (٥٢٤/٢٩٤)

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were present, but Sheikh Farass had not arrived. However he soon
appeared, jolly drunk and full of apologies.
We laughed and talked for an hour or more, the Resident a little
nervous about the chair.
We drank coffee and tea, smoked chibouks and nargheellas, ate
sweetmeats, and sipped sherbet. In fact it was a mixture of Persian
and Arabic customs. In the Sertip Colonel Pelly found an old
acquaintance. They had met in former days at Teheran in Mrs.
Taylor’s house.
While talking nonsense. Sheikh Farass suddenly asked what England
would do if Persia attacked Afghanistan. Shortly after we took our
departure.
On leaving, some of the attendants asked Mirza Hajee Ahmed if we
had not got a little brandy to spare.
Travellers visiting Felaheah should be recommended to keep one
eye always on their kit. We went home that night and slept on all
our valuables.
March Wth .—On leaving Dorak, we were advised to proceed as far
as the village of Jungereh by water, as the road was very much cut up
by canals, which laden mules would find considerable difficulty in
crossing. So we sent our animals on to wait for us.
We started at 6-5 a. m. in two large bellams and tracked Eastward
along the Nar-el-Felaheah, between date trees, which extended along
both banks of the canal for about two miles. We then got into the
open country with half a dozen groves of date trees round us. Our
rate of travelling was a little more than two miles an hour.
At 7-45 we arrived at Khuzena or the Sluice. We were now on the
right bank of a considerable river called the Juraihee, and here we found
the origin of the Dorak canal. Here it opens from the river through
a hole lined with reeds to prevent the water washing away the bank.
This river Juraihee is said to come out of the hills at Ram Hormuz,
to flow past Bizea, and to open into the Shat-ul-Arab at Ghuzba nearly
opposite Faon; but that would seem to be a mistake, as the Bamsheer
runs down almost parallel to the Shat-ul-Arab and on its Eastern side.
This river is about forty yards wide ; its general depth is 8 feet, and it is
deep up to the edge of both banks; but at the place we met it, it may
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