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precating any hostile proceedings against a relation of his vassal Azad 



Khan. 



This day proceeded in a S. W. direction over a level road 10 kos to 



Chok-i-Gazo, and again at 7 kos to the right, under the 

 Chah-i-Sor. 



same hill is another spring called Chakul-i-Kondai. 



22nd October.— Started, and at 4 kos arrived at a rivulet bed, to the 



right of which are two pools of water, called Shah Dost-aph ; here I 



spent the heat of the day, and again starting proceeded another 4 kos, 



where to the right in the hollow of a ravine is another pool, called 



Mazar-aph, surrounded by tamarisk trees. Here I 

 Mazar-aph. 



spent the night, eating kabab and listening to Baloch 

 lays, having purchased a sheep from a neighbouring khel for one 

 joree. 



23rd October.— After a ride of 5 kos arrived at a defile called Tang, 

 where we alighted under the shade of tamarisk trees, and cooked our 

 bread in the sand, first scraping a cavity under where the burning 

 logs had been, putting the bread in, covering it up, and again lighting 

 a fire over the place. The bread of course requires a little rubbing, 

 brushing and dusting after being taken out of this patent oven ; 2 kos 

 further came to a narrow Pass along the side of a mountain very dif- 

 ficult for a single unladen camel, it is called Mu- 

 Muraclee Gwarjon. . 



radee Gwarjon. Here I was obliged to dismount, 



as one false step of my camel would have precipitated me, if on him, 

 into the abyss below. After passing this danger, I put up for the night 

 one kos further on. 



2ith October. — Proceeded sometimes in S. W. and sometimes in a 

 W. S. W. direction, 10 kos, over a very difficult mountainous road, in 

 some places so narrow as scarcely to admit of a single camel passing; on 

 the road, came on the Hadjee Kaur, or " Dragon's ra- 

 vine," so called from a dragon that infested it, until Ma- 

 lik Dewar, a famous Baloch saint, whose tomb is at Washuk, converted 

 it by his curse into stone just as it was retiring into its cave. A green 

 colored stone is still pointed out with awe and reverence by the Ba- 

 lochees as the tip of the dragon's tail. From the pools in this ravine we 

 filled our masheks, or water bags, as there was no water to be expected 

 at the stage which has not even a name, not being a fixed one. The 

 mat flag is plentiful in the Kaur. 



