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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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those on the right of our track,like long parallel walls of sand extending forgreat distances from east to west. One sand hill, 80 feet high, quite semi-spherical, and with a solitary tamarisk tree on itstop, rising some 40 feet above all the others, wasquite a landmark along this route. It marked apoint from which to the east of our track wefound more uniformity in the shape of the sandmounds, which were lower and all semi-spherical.To the west of the track, curiously enough, therewere hardly any sand hills at all,—but this wasdue, I think, to the fact that tamarisk shrubsdid not seem to flourish on the latter side, andtherefore did not cause the sand to accumulate. Several miles further, however, at a spotprotected by high sand dunes, tamarisk trees werefound growing, some being 4 to 6 feet high, andseeming quite luxuriant after the usual desertshrubs which hardly ever rise above two to threefeet. Sadek had purchased at Warmal two bigbottles of milk for my use, but as we had found
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XXVI PERSIAN GEOGRAPHICAL NOTIONS 273 no good water on the way and the heat of thesun was great, he could not resist the temptation,and had drunk it all. When I claimed it heprofessed that my cats had stolen it. A longjolting ride on the jumbaz camel produced themarvellous result that, although the cats haddrunk the milk, Sadek himself was attacked byindigestion caused by it. He seemed to sufferinternal agony, and lay on his camels humpdoubled up with pain. He felt so very ill thathe requested me to take him on my camel, andto let him exchange places with my driver. Tomy sorrow I consented. In a moment of temporary relief from theaching of his digestive organs he entered intoone of his favourite geographical discussions.Having for the twentieth time eradicated fromhis brain the notion that London and Russiawere not suburbs of Bombay, he now wanted toknow whether Tanki-dimia (by which glorifiedname the Persians call the United States ofAmerica) were inside the * walls of Londoncity or

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