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quired, but it accounts for the great apparent discrepancy in names and 

 distances met with on maps and in routes.* 



I may here remark on the names Khojak Pass — Eoghani Eange — • 

 Khoja Amran Range, found on the maps as representing the celebrated hills 

 dividing the Pishinf and Kadanei valleys. Locally tbe names Khojak, 

 Eoghani, Khoja Amran are unknown as designating any set or range of hills ; 

 in fact neither the Achakzais nor the inhabitants of the Pishin (Tor Tarins) 

 have any general name for the hills ; but every peak, spring, stream seems to 

 have a special local name, often but little known, as might be expected among 

 such a people as the Afghans. Khojak is the name of the Khojak river, 

 the bed of which forms the Khojak Pass : % similarly Eoghani is the name of 

 the Pass so called, not of any hill, while Khoja (or more properly Khwaja) 

 Amran is the name of a peak in the Gwaja Pass ; on its summit is a 

 cemetery, so it is possible that Khwaja Amran was a Pir or saint when alive. 

 Gaz (not Dahagaz as the maps have it) is the name apparently of the 

 line of hills separating the Shalkot (Quetta) and Pishin valleys through 

 which the Gazarband Pass runs, but this is the only line of hills which has 

 a general name as far as I can understand. Chiltan (or Chiltan) to the S. 

 of Quetta, Takatu, Zarghun, Pil, Kand, names along a line of hills running 

 successively northwards from Quetta and visible from the Pishin valley, are 

 names rather of snowy peaks than of ranges. Chapar again is the name of 

 a high rounded snowy peak, behind these again, but visible from Pishin. 



* The village of Marsingzai is also frequently called Maisingi ; and Tajao is the 

 proper name of the village usually called Zanghir Khan. Sagzai is also frequently 

 named Torakhar, pronounced also Toragar (the black rock), from the hill in the neigh- 

 bourhood where there is a convenient place for a camp. 



f Pronounced Pishin in the neighbourhood, not Peshin as it is usually spelt. 



% Machka is the name of a stream joining the left bank of the Khojak about 6 miles 

 from the summit of the Pass, and Shal of the place marked " Camping Ground" in the 

 maps about 4 miles up the Pass from Kala Abdullah Khan. There is a perpetual spring 

 of water there. 



