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Title: Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage, 1865-1924
Subjects: Asia, Central -- Description and travel Iran -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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only just been opened andall the arrangements for the accommodation oftravellers are not quite completed, but largecomfortable bungalows had already been erected—as we have seen—at Robat, Mirui, andDalbandin, while smaller buildings of the sametype will shortly be completed at Mall, KuchakiChah, Yadgar Chah, Sotag, and Chah Sandan.In addition to these, the erection of bungalowshas been taken in hand at Chakal, Tretoh,Mushki-Chah, Saindak, Kirtaka, and MahommedRaza Chah, and it was anticipated that all theserest houses would be finished before the closeof 1902. Owing to the great increase in the trafficupon the route, the accommodation at Mall,Yadgar Chah, and Karodak, has been nearlydoubled, and two rooms added to the alreadyextensive thana at Dalbandin, while the Tretoh,Mushki-Chah, and Mukak posts have beenmuch enlarged and strengthened. On the Persian territory the Vice-Consul inSistan has erected small shelters, which, althoughnecessarily not quite so luxurious as those under
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XXXV WATER 369 the direct control of the British authorities, areyet quite good enough for any one to spend aa night in. We have thus a complete belt ofrest-houses extending from Quetta to Sher-i-Nasrya in Sistan. Every effort has been made to improve thew^ater supply upon the road, and new v^ells areconstantly being sunk. True, the water, allalong the route, is not of the best, but one doesnot generally expect to find delicious sweet springwater in a desert. One thing is, nevertheless,certain, that the best has been made of givencircumstances. Barring the most trying sectionof the route (in Beluchistan territory) betweenMukak and Mushki-Chah, where the water isreally foul, the majority of wells may be more orless brackish, but, as I have said before, notnecessarily unwholesome. In fact, I have a firmbelief that brackish water is the water one shoulddrink in the desert to keep healthy, and is theremedy provided by nature for the purpose ofbalancing other ill-effects produced by travel

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