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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—Roghani Range— 
Khéja Amran Range, found on the maps as representing the eelebrated hills 
dividing the Pishint and Kadanei valleys. Locally the names Khojak, 
Roghani, Khéja 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. Khdjak is the name of the Khojak river, 
the bed of which forms the Khoéjak Pass :{ similarly Roghaniis the name ot 
the Pass so called, not of any hill, while Khdja (or more properly Khwaja) 
Amran is the name of a peak in the Gwaja Pass; on its summit isa 
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 Shalkdét (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 Chiltdn) to the S. 
of Quetta, Takatti, Zarghtin, 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 Tajo is the 
proper name of the village usually called Zanghir Khan. Sagzai is also frequently 
named Torakhar, pronounced also Téragar (the black rock), from the hill in the neigh- 
bourhood where there is a convenient place for a camp. 
+ Pronounced Pishin in the neighbourhood, not Peshin as it is usually spelt. 
{ Machka is the name ofa stream joining the left bank of the Khéjak 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. 
