ELD 113 — Malik Do Kand Mountains

• Peacocke, W (1887): Records of Intelligence Party ABC, Vol. 3, pp. 10-11 (Oct. 11, 1884): “[…] There are said to be mines of rock salt in Malik Dokand and the change in the quality of the water between the Rabat halting-places (see 9th October), and this point appears to support the statement.”
• Maitland, P.J. (1888): Records of Intelligence Party ABC, Vol. 1, p. 33 (Sept. 24, 1884): “There are said to be three mines here, 2 or 3 miles off, near the base of Ainak, which, by the way, completely shuts out Dokand from sight of the camping place. One is a salt mine, one a sulphur mine, and the third of rock crystal or marble. The Amir has been conveying a quantity of the latter to Kabul. Many specimens of a semi-transparent fine crystalline stone are laying about near the Ziarat, and some of marble with red veins.”
• Balsan, F. (1972): Au Registan inexploré, p. 203, the French traveller describes the mines of marble and aragonite in the area of Galacha. He also mentions the violet toning of the sky in the crepuscular light at sunset: “Des reliefs violacés par le crepuscule à l’horizon : – Le Koh i Arbou, me dit Hamza : le premier mont, à 90 kilomètres de Benader.”
• Adamec, L.W. (1973): Farah and south-western Afghanistan, p. 82: Galichah, “A halting stage at the Nushki-Helmand road. There is a ziarat here, water, and camel grazing and firewood can be procured.”

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