Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . ngtorrential rains. We came to a most interesting point—theMalek Siah Ziarat, which in theory marks thepoint where the three coveted countries, />.,Persia, Afghanistan and Beluchistan, meet. Theactual frontier, however, is on the summit of thewatershed, a short distance to the east of theZiarat. This Ziarat was a fine one, of the Beluchpattern, not covered over by a building such asthose, for instance, that we had found on Kuh-i-Kwajah. There seemed to be a fate against pho- 288 ACROSS COVETED LANDS chap. t
Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . ngtorrential rains. We came to a most interesting point—theMalek Siah Ziarat, which in theory marks thepoint where the three coveted countries, />.,Persia, Afghanistan and Beluchistan, meet. Theactual frontier, however, is on the summit of thewatershed, a short distance to the east of theZiarat. This Ziarat was a fine one, of the Beluchpattern, not covered over by a building such asthose, for instance, that we had found on Kuh-i-Kwajah. There seemed to be a fate against pho- 288 ACROSS COVETED LANDS chap. tographing these Ziarats. It was only under thegreatest disadvantages that I was ever able tophotograph them. On this particular occasionI had hardly time to produce my camera beforea downpour, such as I had seldom experienced,made it impossible to take a decent picture of was a central tomb 15 feet long, of biground white stones, supported on upright pillarsof brown and green stone, and a white marblepillar at each end. Circular white marble slabs ^Y^{ I ^^S^-^Qa^-Q-^^. ^ Plan of Kah-i-Malek Siah Ziarat. were resting on the tomb itself, and a few feetfrom this tomb all round was a wall, 3 feet high,of upright pillars, of brown and green stone,forming an oblong that measured 20 feet by8 feet, with a walled entrance at its south-easternextremity. An additional wall like a crescentprotected the south-eastern end of the oblong,and due east in a line were three stone cairnswith bundles of upright sticks fixed into them,on which hung rags of all colours. To the west of the tomb, between it and theenclosing wall, was a great collection of longsticks and tree branches—which must have beenbrought here from a great distance—and at their XXVII OFFERINGS 289 foot offerings of all sorts, such as goat-horns,ropes, leather bags, hair, stones, marble vessels,and numberless pieces of cloth. In the spring of each year, I am told, theBeluch make a pilgrimage to this Ziarat, anddepo
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