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horse in pitch stone, now lying on its side, measure 55 feet from top 

 of the ear to hoof, 42 from chest to tail ; legs 14 feet. Two other 

 similar horses, also in ruins, lie on other two sides of Esh, so as to 

 form a right-angled triangle round it. 



10th. — From Khoolook, E., pass Pral to the right, cross the 

 desert, kill an antelope and bivouac by a pool in a ravine. 



11th. — Desert ; pass a few pools ; robbed by Bhurs of every thing ; 

 wolves and leopards and hyenas all night. 



12th.— March through desert to Oosfung; a charitable chief gave 

 clothes and guides. 



13th. — Through desert to Coom ; great forest to the south towards 

 Pral in which the Bhurs escaped. 



Forest called Erbabfung ; wolves in packs of 1000. Fung means 

 forest in Kafir. This forest, he says, extends to the borders of Deer 

 and Deord and Pahlooth. 



lMh. — Leave Coom for Budukshan, meet Ohas of Oosbres ; halt 

 at one. 



16th. — Mud fort Agsa ; black mail in shape of guides to Shoolash 

 — a little cultivation. 



17th. — Flat and level country ; passed Shoh, and put up at an Oba. 



18th. — Over well-peopled country to Budukshan ; stopped at a 

 Ziarat in suburbs. 



24*th. — Leave Budukshan. Easterly, well-cultivated, to Shoh. 



26th. — Eeached low hills and ravines. Trap and greenstone ; — old 

 ruined fort of Durum under basalt cliffs — report of old caves — marks 

 of old mines, he suspects for topaz, in a stratum of quartz and litho- 

 marge ! some limestone with shells ; wandering about, looking for 

 jewels apparently. 



27th, — The basaltic cliffs assume fanciful shapes ; supposed to be 

 Kafirs petrified by Abraham. One very remarkable human face on 

 the precipitous sides of a dark ravine of amygdaloid rock is called 

 Babo Boolan, about 25 feet in height, with monstrous red eyes and 

 mouth and aquiline nose : — they are objects of extreme dread to the 

 natives. 



28th. — Beached this ravine and hills, resorts of wandering Moor, 

 Shoolies and Usbecks. 



31st. — Beached foot of Altan mountains, stopped at a stone fort, 



