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0345 Overland to India : vol.2
インドへの陸路 : vol.2
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CHAP. XLVII TRAVELS IN THE KEVIR   159

comes from the neighbourhood of Naibend and runs on south-eastwards to the Nemek-sar ; Deh-i-seif and Khabis, 180o feet.

This road is, however, not the only one which connects Neh with Khabis; for during my sojourn in Neh I obtained the following details about another road which comes in contact with the preceding only at one point, Deh-i-salm, but elsewhere lies to the south of it. From Neh it runs first to Ser-i-rig-estendi, 4 farsakh ; Cha-turk, 2 farsakh ; Hauz-iganjigha, 3 farsakh ; Deh-i-salm, 3 farsakh. From Deh-isalm there are 33 farsakh of completely desert country without water to Cheshme-i-deh-i-seif, a distance which is traversed in three days and three nights, with only a short rest every twelve hours to bait the camels ; here, then, the journey is accomplished in the same way as we have experienced in the great Kevir. These 33 farsakh were thus described to me : from Deh-i-salm to Daghal, 6 farsakh over easy ground, desht or steppe with small plants

called butte-i-shur or butte-i-dornun ; Do-shakhel, 4 farsakh,

't   over ground of the same kind as before except that a

i   desert-plant called butte-i-taherun occurs ; on the right of

the road, that is, to the north, stand two small isolated hills,

å   which give the place its name ; Kuche, 5 farsakh through
sand pebbles and clay, but no hills ; for half a farsakh the road here runs along a channel excavated by the wind and hence the name, for Kuche denotes a street or lane ; Gujar,

7 farsakh over sandy clay soil, which does not become slippery after rain ; neither gravel nor vegetation is found

r~   here, but a tract of löss clay is crossed which is called
Shahr-i-Lut, or, " desert town " ; Leb-i-shur-rud, or Leb-i-

i   rud-i-shur, 3 farsakh over kevir ; the name signifies " bank
of the salt stream " and shows that the Nemek-sar does not

r;   extend so far to the north as represented on maps, but that
it lies to the south of the road in question, which only

crosses the surrounding kevir ; Bagh-i-assad, 2 farsakh ;

here the road seems to touch the Nemek-sar, for my informant said that at Bagh-i-assad salt was broken up into

cakes to be carried to Kerman, but otherwise the ground consists here of alternating kevir and hillocks. Then remain 6 farsakh to Ser-i-cheshme-i-deh-i-seif, that is, " the

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