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ABC 063 — Rivulet near Camp Akhtachi

A soldier with Afghan lambskin cap standing on the bank of a meandering rivulet or irrigation canal. On both sides some horses and donkeys are drinking or grazing on arid ground which is sparsely covered with grass and shrubs.
[List:] 63. Nala near Akhtarchi camp looking east.
  • Adamec, L.W. (1975): Herat and north-western Afghanistan, p. 17: Akhtachi, “Akhtachi proper is 8 miles east of Gulran, and about the same distance northwest of Tutakchi.”
Image No.
ABC 063
Collection
Afghan Boundary Commission 1884-86
Series
ABC 2, Photographs 058 to 116
Format
Sepia print, 148/199 mm
Quality
good, some mouldy spots
Place, date
Akhtachi, February to March, 1885
Descriptors
  • 1.57 Pictures of Landscapes, Cities
  • 2.123 Herat and NW-Afghanistan
  • 4.365 Abdur Rahman Khan (1880-1901)
  • 4.416 GB Relations with Great Britain
  • Latitude / Longitude35.158680 / 61.887200
    Google Earth35°40ʹ N / 61°49ʹ E
    Survey of India MapSheet 29, Herat (1916): Akhtachi, J 83

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