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Archaeological Reconnaissances in North-Western India and South-Eastern Īrān : vol.1 |
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CHAPTER VIII
FROM GALEHDAR TO BUSHIRE
Section 1—REMAINS OF GALEHDAR
FROM the first it had been my intention to turn from Tāhirī eastwards and to
make my way into Lāristān across the succession of hill ranges running
parallel to the coast-line. There seemed hope that on that higher ground, archae-
ologically as yet unsurveyed and also otherwise little known, it would be possible
to continue exploratory field work longer into the spring than climatic conditions
would permit by the hot and steamy Gulf coast. Some doubts as to the execution
of this programme had first been raised by the report received at Gābandī about
unrest among the large Qāshqai tribe whose extensive winter grazing-grounds
adjoin that area. The rumours heard at Tāhirī did not help to reduce these mis-
givings. But during our prolonged stay there even more immediate cause for
concern revealed itself through the difficulties we had to face about transport.
The small fishing hamlet of Tāhirī could not have supplied more than half a
dozen half-starved donkeys for the move across the rugged hill range which
rises steeply above the narrow coastal strip and divides it from the Galehdar
valley through which the approach to Lār lay. Even if the old Shaikh of Tāhirī,
who lay dying in his castle-like mansion below which our camp stood, had been
able and willing to assert what little authority was left to him, it would have been
impossible to collect adequate transport along this stretch of coast, where the
loss of animals due to starvation consequent on two years of drought appeared to
have been even greater than elsewhere.
So it was with no small relief that by January 19th I welcomed the arrival of
about a score of donkeys which 'Abbās Khān, 'Shaikh' of Galehdar, in response
to urgent appeals, had sent down to help us onwards. The desire to reach Lār
was shared by the commander of our escort, who hoped that the small garrison
to be found there would allow him to be relieved of further responsibilities. For
a similar reason he felt also much reassured by the arrival with the Galehdar
transport of a small band of 'Abbās Khān's armed retainers, who were to protect
us on the way through the hills.
On January 20th a short march of 10 miles down the coast to the south-east
took us to the spot known as Pūzeh, where some decayed homesteads marked
cultivation which the oppression exercised by the Shaikh of Tāhirī had caused to
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