. Scottish geographical magazine. ki Chah, my next camp. Close to Kundi, stunted tamai-isk wasagain to be seen; but this was soon left behind, and the road resumedits monotonous course over plains of stone and gravel. Towards the A JOURNEY FROM Ql ETTA TO MASHHAD. 193 end of the days inarch, it approached a low range of hills, whose gauntribs of rock projected through masses of sand, and shortly beforereaching camp we were winding about among low hills of sand andgravel at the foot of the range. Mashki Chah consists of a well andthana, and a few palm trees, surrounded by rocky peaks, rising in
. Scottish geographical magazine. ki Chah, my next camp. Close to Kundi, stunted tamai-isk wasagain to be seen; but this was soon left behind, and the road resumedits monotonous course over plains of stone and gravel. Towards the A JOURNEY FROM Ql ETTA TO MASHHAD. 193 end of the days inarch, it approached a low range of hills, whose gauntribs of rock projected through masses of sand, and shortly beforereaching camp we were winding about among low hills of sand andgravel at the foot of the range. Mashki Chah consists of a well andthana, and a few palm trees, surrounded by rocky peaks, rising infantastic shapes from the low range at the foot of which it is situated;and, taking into consideration the nature of the country which en-comjjasses it on every side, one might be forgiven for considering italmost picturesque. From here the first few miles led over ground broken by low hillsand ridges, but before long we were again travelling over a level plain,skirtins: a low range of hills on the north. A distance of some miles. The Well at Mashki Chah. over the level Avith nothing to afford relief to the eye wearied withcontinual scenes of dreary desolation, brought us again to a maze of lowmounds and ridges, among which we twisted and turned till we reachedthe wells and small mud shelter of Ware Chah. i^From local information I gathered that wild asses used to roam overthe plains in this neighbourhood, in considerable numbers, but that theadvent of the caravan-route had driven them away, and they had beenrarely seen in the vicinity of late. They were, however, so myinformant gave me to understand, still to be found in fair numbers, notfar from Kirtaka—a post on the route three days journey farther on—and he knew of two having been shot during the last month. From Ware Chah the road differed little from the })revious march,through leading through a country more uniformly hilly, as it drewtowards the Saindak mountains and the Persian border. To the south 194: SCOTTISH GEO
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