Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . oor of one being on the level with theroof of the underlying one. The path to the village was very steep, tor-tuous and narrow. The village extended fromsouth-west to north-east on the top of themountain, and the separate quadrangular toweroccupied a prominent position to its easternextremity. There were palm trees and fieldsboth to the south and east at the foot of therocky mountain on which the village stood, andto the (300° bearings magnetic) of ittowered the majestic Naiband Mountain mass,very high,
Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . oor of one being on the level with theroof of the underlying one. The path to the village was very steep, tor-tuous and narrow. The village extended fromsouth-west to north-east on the top of themountain, and the separate quadrangular toweroccupied a prominent position to its easternextremity. There were palm trees and fieldsboth to the south and east at the foot of therocky mountain on which the village stood, andto the (300° bearings magnetic) of ittowered the majestic Naiband Mountain mass,very high, one of the great landmarks of theDasht-i-Lut, the Salt Desert. Directly above the village of Naiband was apeak from which, although of no great altitude—4,500 ft.—one got a beautiful birds-eye viewboth of the village and the surrounding immense stretch of desert spread below us,uninterrupted from north-east to south except bya small cluster of hillocks directly under us, andby the continuation towards the south-west ofthe Naiband mountainous mass; a high mountain. Authors Caravan Descending into Kixkk \k i>. W*^ ti^
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