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Title: A ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: De Windt, Harry, 1856-1933
Subjects: India -- Description and travel Iran -- Description and travel Balochistan (Pakistan) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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sickle, having its cutting edge furnished withminute teeth, complete the list of a Baluchisagricultural tools. Jebri Fort stands on a steep hillock about fiftyfeet in heisfht. From here a o-ood view wasobtainable of the surrounding country. Imme-diately below were pretty gardens or enclosedspaces, sown in the centre with maize, wheat, andtobacco, and surrounded by plum and pomegra-nate trees and date palms. There is a con-siderable trade in the latter between here andBella, which perhaps accounted for the myriadsof flies which here, as at Gajjar, proved a sourceof great annoyance. In Chabass garden wereroses and other flowers, some remarkably finevines, and a number of mulberry trees. Thegrounds were well and neatly laid out with paths,grass plots, and artificial streams, upon which Icomplimented the old man ; but he would talk ofnothing but his fort, which was, indeed, the onlystructure worthy of the name met with betweenOuetta and the sea. In the evening his son 290 A RIDE TO INDIA.
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«,\ w BAL UCHI ST An— G WARJAK. 2 91 brought me a delicious dish of preserved apricotsand cream, for which I presented him with threerupees, one of which he instantly returned. It isconsidered, by Baluchis, extremely unlucky togive or accept an odd number of coins. At Jebri, for the first time, we suffered severelyfrom cold at night, the thermometer dropping to42° Fahr. just before sunrise. The climate ofBaluchistan presents extraordinary varieties, andis extremely trying to Europeans. Although atKelat the natives suffer considerably more fromcold in winter than summer heats, the hot seasonin the low-lying valleys and on the coast, whichlasts from April till October, may be almost saidto be the most severe in the world. At Kej, inMekram, the thermometer sometimes reofisters125° Fahr. in the shade as early as April, whilethe heat in the same district during the Khurma-Paz, or Date-ripening, is so intense that thenatives themselves dare not venture abroad inthe daytime. Notwithstan

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