Sunday, July 15, 2018

The Bayat village Kushkak (Joseph Pierre Ferrier, [1845] 1857)


The Bayat village Kushkak




Koshgek, April 30th ― five parasangs ― seven hours and a half ― across the mountains by an easy road: an uncultivated country, with a scanty population for the first part; in the last two parasangs a few pretty villages lie right and left of the road. The peak of Demavend is distinctly to be seen two hours before arriving at this halt, distant forty-give parasangs. A few years before I had seen it at Kohrood, a village on the road to Ispahan, distant fifty-four parasangs or eighty-one leagues. Koshgek is a village of a hundred and fifty houses. The inhabitants are of the Beijat tribe of nomads.


Ferrier J.P., Caravan journeys and wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan and Beloochistan; with historical notices of the countries lying between Russia and India, translated by William Jesse. ― London: John Murray, 2nd edition, 1857, pp. 45.


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