Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . /|\|.;AI A I < IIAIl SaNDAN. ( I ul i I k 1 In. I la 11 ^. I i 1111. i|. 1,1: I ? r. :i,i. w i i ii ( ., r-i \l, M \l: ^ ? I Ai;. XXXIV A DEADLY PLANT 363 south—a red stretch of flat sand between extend-ing all along from north-east to there were no more sand hills we came tosand banks, which made the track undulatinglike a switchback railway. Our attention was drawn to a curious plantwith a fruit resembling small oranges lying uponthe ground and called by the natives karenghirirri.

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Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . /|\|.;AI A I < IIAIl SaNDAN. ( I ul i I k 1 In. I la 11 ^. I i 1111. i|. 1,1: I ? r. :i,i. w i i ii ( ., r-i \l, M \l: ^ ? I Ai;. XXXIV A DEADLY PLANT 363 south—a red stretch of flat sand between extend-ing all along from north-east to there were no more sand hills we came tosand banks, which made the track undulatinglike a switchback railway. Our attention was drawn to a curious plantwith a fruit resembling small oranges lying uponthe ground and called by the natives karenghirirri. There were hundreds of these fruit about,but Mahommed, who had great local botanicalknowledge, advised me not to eat them becausetheir poison was deadly, and we did not care toexperiment in order to test the accuracy of hisstatement. All along this Robat-Nushki route one finds agreat many Mesjids (or Masit^ as the word ispronounced by the Beluch). The Mesjid orMasit is a sort of temporary praying spot wheregood Mussulmans say their prayers at sunrise orsunset, and answers the purpose—if one may beallowed the expression—of an open-air mosque !The

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