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ACCOUNT OF AN EXPEDITION UP THE BOLAN PASS TO 
KHELAT TERRITORY, WITH MAJOR SANDEMAN, POLI¬ 
TICAL AGENT. 
CAPTAIN H. G. YOUNG, E.A., 
(Commandant No. 2 Mountain Battery , Bombay Presidency .) 
[PART II.] 
Major Sandeman’s Mission to Khelat, 
It will be remembered that at the end of Part I. half of the military 
escort were at Khelat with Major San deman, and the remainder at 
Garanee or Zearut—the former giving the name to the stream, the latter 
to the valley and village where the camp was pitched. On the 12th 
August 1876, after striking camp, this portion of the escort marched at 
5.15 a.m. through the Zearut and Khelat valleys, 7 miles, and pitched 
camp at a place called Koing in the Khelat valley, some 2 miles 
from the town of Khelat. This march occupied exactly 2 hours. Khelat 
is the chief residence of the Khan, and is the capital of Beluchistan. 
It consists of a town surrounded by mud walls built on the slope of a 
hill some 200 ft. (at the top) from the ground. On the top of this hill 
stands the palace and citadel, in which the Khan resides. The place is 
very weak in defence and liable to capture, as close to the town is 
another hill from the top of which a clear command over the town is 
obtained. No one is permitted to enter the fortifications; but what 
ordnance exists is both ancient and unserviceable. The following 
description of Khelat is taken from Masson's book. 
Khelat has three gates; the northern one is called the Mustung 
Gate, the eastern the Dil Dar Gate, and the southern the Gil Khan 
Gate. Adjoining the latter is a triangular outwork, called the Sanghar, 
entered by a gate close to that of Gil Khan. There are no houses in 
the Sanghar—formed by the continuation of the western wall (along 
the ridge on the eastern side of which the town is built), and by 
another wall carried from it to the gate of Gil Khan. At the apex is 
a large town. The work was probably erected to protect the Babi 
suburb lying beneath it, and to remedy its occupation by an enemy. 
On the western front, in the centre, stands the Miri, or citadel palace. 
Outside the town, which is in a very dirty state (apparently no 
attempts are made to clean it), is a fruit and flower garden belonging to 
the Khan. In this garden are some ducks, that were formerly presented 
