ABC 013 — Camp Karez-e Dasht
In the foreground a kneeling camel with pack-saddle. On the right side of the saddle a holster with a rifle. On the ground, beside the camel, the unloaded and partly opened boxes and cases for photographic equipment are spread. At some distance in the plain a vast number of picketed horses and mules in front of some tents. In the background a steep ridge of bare hills.
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In the foreground a kneeling camel with pack-saddle. On the right side of the saddle a holster with a rifle. On the ground, beside the camel, the unloaded and partly opened boxes and cases for photographic equipment are spread. At some distance in the plain a vast number of picketed horses and mules in front of some tents. In the background a steep ridge of bare hills.
[List:] 13. Karez-i-Dasht Camp.
- Owen, Charles (1884-86): Transcript of diary and letters, p. 105: “8 Nov. [1884] We marched at 6 am for Camp Karez Dasht, a distance of 23 miles. […] Our camp was not reached till 12.45 pm and the baggage did not come in till 4 pm. […] There is no village however from which patients could come. […]”
- Yate, A.C. (1887): Travels with the Afghan Boundary Commission, pp. 122-123: descrip-tion of the tough weather condition at the camp of Karez-i-Dasht.
- Adamec, L.W. (1975): Herat and north-western Afghanistan, p. 251: Karez Dasht.
Image No.
ABC 013
Collection
Afghan Boundary Commission 1884-86
Series
ABC 1, Photographs 001 to 057
Format
Sepia print, 149/201 mm
Quality
good, margins faded, mouldy spots
Place, date
Karez-e Dasht, November 9, 1884
Descriptors
Latitude / Longitude33.145032 / 61.594830
Google Earth33°09ʹ N / 61°48ʹ E
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Survey of India MapSheet 29, Herat (1916): Karez Dasht, T 60
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