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Archaeological Reconnaissances in North-Western India and South-Eastern Īrān : vol.1 |
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CHAPTER V
TO RŪDBĀR AND JĪRUFT
Section 1—PAST THE JĀZ-MŪRIĀN DEPRESSION
FOR the journey that was to take us past the marshy depression where the
Bampūr river from the east and the Halīl Rūd from the west find their
termination, two routes offered themselves, one passing north and the other
south of the 'Hāmūn'. On both sides progress for a large party such as ours was
practicable only along a line of wells on which it would be possible to depend
with assurance for a sufficient supply of drinkable water. Carefully collected
information had shown that quite a series of tumps were to be found all along
the northern route, whereas on the one to the south none were known beyond the
well of Chāh Aḥmadī, marked on the Survey of India map with a query to the
east of the Jāz-Mūriān marshes. What finally made me decide on the northern
route was the consideration that since it leads along the glacis of hill ranges
higher than those to the south of the basin, there was a possibility of their
greater drainage having in early times permitted of cultivation at more points
than the few at which it could be found now along this route. Nor was the fact
to be ignored that the important line of communication connecting Bampūr
with Bam and Kermān must always have followed this route, at least for its
initial portion.
A journey of about 163 miles brought us in the course of ten marches from
Chāh Ḥusainī to Tumbut on the terminal course of the Halīl Rūd. The ground
traversed bore uniformly the character of a scrubby desert of gravel, hard clay,
or sand, broken at intervals by shallow drainage beds and narrow strips of jungle
along them. Hence no account of the ground passed on each march is called for.
Throughout, water was to be obtained only from wells, often difficult to find
without local guidance and brackish. Since most of them are at times liable to
dry up, others have to be sought in their place by travellers and the Balūch
nomads grazing in this area. This will explain why only a few of the local names
recorded in the Map, Sheet I, are to be found on the route as marked in the Survey
of India maps, Nos. 25. I, M, and 31. A, published between 1910 and 1915. The
boundary between Persian Balūchistān and the province of Kermān crosses this
desert tract about midway, but is ill defined. This helped to increase the con-
stant trouble about obtaining a change of camels for our baggage and for us
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