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II. The Hunting of Rahmat. 



1 U JU U ,]tis 



"Thou art my gazelle, my deer, my wild ox, my shikar." 



KAANI. 



FROM inhabited Seistan the Palang Koh range is 

 on clear days visible as a distant jagged purple 

 line, with in winter occasional gleams of white. 

 Betwixt lies the Hamun, with its lagoons and 

 reed beds, and farther on a stony waterless plain, 

 from which the mountains rise somewhat sharply. 

 The range actually consists of a series of detached 

 ridges, for the most part parallel to one another, 

 with a general direction of north and south. 

 Habitations there are none, but in springtime, 

 when the hillsides are clothed with short-lived 

 verdure, Baluch nomads bring their flocks and 

 plant their black tents near the scanty springs. 

 The ridges being mostly limestone, are gener- 

 ally abrupt, often razor -edged; and though the 

 average height is less than 5000 or 6000 feet, 



