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0395 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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Makran [southeastern Persia and southwestern Baluchis-
tan], the temperature in the shade was generally about 100
degrees, while water was almost nonexistent, and what little
there was we could scarcely drink [because it was so saline]."
In speaking of the whole journey from Chahbar to Kir-
man during the months from October, 1893, to June, 1894,
Sykes says: "Throughout the journey forage was our chief
anxiety [although the caravan numbered only from a dozen
to twenty men, with a corresponding number of horses]."
Among the higher mountains of this corner of Persia, water
can usually be found by digging in the dry watercourses,
although it is very poor and scarce. Forage, however, is
always hard to obtain, and the governors-general of the
province almost never visit the district because of the
scarcity of supplies. Yet Alexander must have crossed it
with a large army. Northeast of Bampur, even in March,
when vegetation is at its best, forage was so scarce that the
governor-general, whose official guest Sykes was, had had
a supply stored at every stage. The "desert stretch of more
than 150 miles" along the north side of the Jaz Morian salt
swamp, according to Sykes's account, was once thickly popu-
lated, as is shown by numerous ruins, and by the remnants
of kariz, to the reported number of two hundred, which
are now dry. Many of the kariz have probably been aban-
doned because of wars, but that does not explain how
Alexander procured water for an army where there are now
merely salt pools: nor how he procured forage for all his bag-
gage animals where to-day a few score can barely subsist.
The division of Alexander's army which marched through
Afghanistan under Krateros appears to have had no special