ABC 015 — Range between Ging and Zibgin
Probably the view of a rugged mountain range rising from the steppe.
[List:] 15. Range between Ging and Zibgin.
- Collection Edward L. Durand, sketch ELD 016: same place.
- Owen, Charles (1884-86): Transcript of diary and letters, p. 104: “4 Nov. [1884] Marched at 6 am for Camp Ging, distance 22 miles. About half way we passed some large villages and had to skirt them and go thro’ fields, etc. […] We are now entering an extensive range of hills.”
- Holdich, T.H. (1885): Afghan Boundary Commission; Geographical Notes, p. 164: “From Kila Kung to Zehgin was a march of about 20 miles, still through open ground bordered by hills which crossed the general direction of our route (north-west) about at right angles.”
- Peacocke, W (1887): Records of Intelligence Party ABC, Vol. 3, pp. 40-41 (Nov. 5, 1884): Description of the march from Ging to Zigin on November 5, 1884.
- Yate, A.C. (1887): Travels with the Afghan Boundary Commission, pp. 116-117: description of the march from Ging to Zehkin, 22 miles.
- Adamec, L.W. (1975): Herat and north-western Afghanistan, p. 246: Kang; p. 431: Zakin.
Image No.
ABC 015
Collection
Afghan Boundary Commission 1884-86
Series
ABC 1, Photographs 001 to 057
Format
Sepia print
Place, date
?, November 4 to 5, 1884
Descriptors
Latitude / Longitude32.579121 / 61.519334
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Survey of India MapSheet 29, Herat (1916): Koh-i-Anardarra, T 24
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