Extracts from a Diary of a Tour in Khorassan, and Notes on the Eastern Alburz Tract; with Notes on the Yomut Tribe
1876; Royal Geographical Society; Volume: 46; Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1798669
ISSN0266-6235
Autores Tópico(s)Ancient Near East History
ResumoAotes oz fie Jirastern Siburz '217act.On the hill-side above Saidabad ^as the camp of a party of nomads of Turkish origin, but now Shiahs, of the sect known as the Ali Illahi.Their belief sis that Ali, the nephew of the lrophet, was God incarnate.Thuy appeared to have no notion of the ozigin of this doctrine, and said that ';esrerybody believed the same;" the tents, made of black goat's-hair woven in strips, were supported by a number sf short sticks placed at any angle; though frail-10013ing, they are said to give good protection against botll wind and rain: the women of the party were 1lnveiled, and made no show of hiding their faces.'lthey were hard at work making c; kwat,S' a sour Cheess of sheep and goats' milk churned in a leathern bagv In winter these triles descend to the lowlands camping on the outskirts of some large village, where they barter their " kwat " for other necessaries. 6th. To FtrgzKt4h, 30 eniles.Crossing the valley into wllich the Demavend Plateau falls with a steep scarp, the route to Firu2 Euh, the next stage, leads up a narrow gorge with rocky lullIs on both sides; over a green plateau for a short distance, and thence down a wild, rugged glen to the banks of the Deli Chai, a small stream flowing into the plain of Veramin.The Deli C:hai, or " mad stream," flows through a pieturesque valley enclosed by lofty mountains of grand outline, throwing out told, rocky spurs of slate and sandstone.The cliSs alter:llate with green slopes covered witll cypress and juniper.On the bank of the stream was a camp of a party of villayers from Veramill, spending the summer in the mounta;ns, with their flocks and herds and families, while their crops were being cut by hired harlds.The usual laborious process of churning kwat was Soing on; the men of the party seated and doin the wornens work of spinning.Froin the Deli Cha; a good patll leads over a very rough tract of country for 14 -miles to the Nimrud, a large stream flowint, into the Veramin plain.Across the Nimrud is the plateau of Firuz Euh, green and fertile, traversed by the Sowa Ghee, a small stream with marshy banks.The village of Fituz Eull is situated on the south side of the plateau at a point where this stream enters a rockv gorge shut in by two opposing cliSs of limestone 300 to 400 feet in lleight, and surmounted Witll the ruins of an ancient {ortress, said to have been built by Alexander the Great.The village has 500 houses, many of whicll were, howevel, e:mptied by the famine At Sowa Ghee, a vilIage six or eight miles iigher up the streamn are said to be some rock inscriptions.Tllrough Firuz Suh lies the main post-road to Mazandaran.It is now much used by caraxans talQing rice, timber, and charcoal to the capital, but must sllortly be superseded by YOL.XLVI.F
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