530 Route from Derd Ghazeen Khan to Candahar. QNo. 151. 



and engaged the Tareens of Tal. Hajee Kha'n could secure protection, 

 he said to an army passing by this road. 



No. 2. 



The road of Rod Bahdr, from Beebee Nanee in the Bolan Pass 

 to Kaldt. 



Beebee Nanee Jam and Baradee, twelve miles, 100 houses of Puj Belo- 

 chees ; they do not pay tribute to Mehrab Khan, and are generally em- 

 ployed in guarding caravans through the Pass of Bolan. The water is 

 in mountain springs. Rice, wheat, barley and juwaree are cultivated 

 here, and there are gardens of mulberries, apricots, peaches and 

 grapes. Indeed, the fertility of this road may be inferred from its 

 name, Rod Bahar, signifying the valley of spring. From Beebee 

 Nanee, the first six miles is in a plain. The road then enters the Pass, 

 which is 150 yards wide, in which a half-hid stream runs; the two vil- 

 lages of Jam and Baradee are off the road, on an elevated plateau ; the 

 next stage is Zer-i-Kotal, " foot of Pass," a distance of twenty miles. 

 There are no habitations here, nor on the road. The stream at the 

 stage is plentiful. After leaving Jam Baradee, the valley opens out 

 to the breadth of three miles, in which the tamarisk tree forms a 

 jungle, and in which plain the water is lost. The Pass is then formed 

 again, and the water again appears at four miles distant from the foot 

 of the Pass. The stage is level ; on the top of the Pass three-quarters 

 of a mile from the bottom are the ruins of an old town, the streets of 

 which are still to be traced, and several sunken spots denote the site 

 of wells or reservoirs. The natives have searched in vain for old coins. 

 The city is said to have belonged to Giours, (Greeks ?) 



The road from the old town then descends a little, again ascends, 

 and finally has a considerable descent, and takes a level nature, and a 

 third descent to Sar-i-Deh. A collection of wild fig trees, and water 

 in stagnant pools, a distance of eighteen miles ; this stage goes by the 

 name of Rod Bahar ; it is supplied throughout its length with water, and 

 is cultivated in patches of wheat, rice and juwaree ; peaches, apricots, 

 mulberries, &c. also abound in small gardens. In this stage there 

 are about 400 houses of Puj Mughandovee and Kulovee Brahins, 

 who are cultivators. Firewood is plentiful. The next stage is Irar- 

 mookh, four miles, inhabited in the summer by Brahin shepherds ; viz. 

 Ladies, Jatooees and Kulooees, to the amount of 150 tents. The 



