The women wore simply a cloth tied loosely over the loins, while male and female children fourteen or fifteen years old ran about stark naked.
A curious flower, the "kosisant," grows luxuriantly about here.

It is in shape something like a huge asparagus, and about two feet high, being covered from top to bottom with tiny white-and-yellow blossoms, with a sweet but sickly perfume.

It consists but of one shoot or stalk, and bursts through the ground apparently with great force, displacing the soil for several inches.
We left for Gwarjak at 5.30 the following morning.

Etiquette compelled Malak to offer me his horse, while he mounted my camel--an operation effected with very bad grace by my host.

The Baluch saddle consists simply of two sharp pieces of wood bound together by leathern thongs, and the exchange was by no means a welcome one so far as I was concerned.