1853.] Tbn HuokuVs account of Khorasan. 163 



having plenty of gardens. "Water runs through the houses, and the 

 streets are clean. It has many large thriving villages, being situat- 

 ed on outskirts of the mountains. 



Eurawuh is a frontier post on the deserts of the Ghoz tribe of 

 Torks ; it is separated from all villages, but has a Jama-musjed, and 

 is the station for a guard moving to a great distance for the protec- 

 tion of the people. The place is a Robat with no villages, and no 

 population near it. A spring runs through the place. There exist 

 neither gardens nor cultivation, except a little pulse on the spring. 

 The guard is under the strength of one thousand men. 



The Kohestan of Khorasan lies near the desert of Ears, there 

 is no town of the name, but one is called Kaen, of which the depen- 

 dencies are Jonabad, Tubus called Greeluk, Khoar, Tubus known as 

 Museena. 



Kaen is equal in size to Surukhs, it has houses of clay, with a 

 citadel surrounded by a ditch, also a Jama-musjed, and a government- 

 house in the citadel ; its water is derived from springs, with a few 

 gardens, and villages far separated, the climate is cold. 



Tubus is inferior to Kaen in size, the temperature is warm and 

 dates appear ; the place is surrounded by a wall, but has no fort, its 

 houses are of clay and its waters derived from kareez j its dates 

 are larger than those of Kaen. 



Khoar is in size less than Tubus, and near to Khost. The Jama- 

 musjed is at Khoar ; the houses are of clay with no fortifications or 

 fort. The gardens are few and water from kareez — indeed the 

 want of water is excessive ; the people are cattle-breeders, the place 

 being situated on the borders of the desert with no gardens. 



Jonabad is greater than Khoar — the houses are of clay — villages 

 and gardens exist with water from kareez. Tubus Geeluk is larger 

 than Jonabad, there is water from kareez, and villages and gardens, 

 and houses of clay. There exist the remains of an old fortification 

 now in ruins, but a fort is standing. Dates are found in Kohestan, 

 Tubus, and those places which I have mentioned as of cold climate. 

 I have well examined all of them. The population is scanty as in 

 other parts of Khorasan. On the confines of the district is a desert 

 inhabited by Koords, who are breeders of cattle, as camels and sheep. 

 On the boundaries towards Neeshapoor is found an earth which is 

 exported for use, but not for food to distant countries. 



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