Unexplored Baluchistan: A Survey with Observations Astronomical, Geographical, Botanical, Etc., of a Route Through Mekran, Bashkurd, Persia, Kurdistan and Turkey

To others the very title may require explanation; for "Baluchistan," known or unknown, is not restricted within universally accepted limits. Roughly stated, we may describe it as the region situated between the longitudinal lines 57 and 67, bounded on the south by the sea, and on the north by a line sufficiently above latitude 28 to take in the Kuh-i-Basman and Kuh-i- Nushadir. Mr. Floyer's removal from the inhospitable shores of the Persian Gulf to the direction of the Egyptian telegraph, and my own official residence in Cairo, have enabled us to renew the associations of bygone years. They explain, moreover, how I have been asked, and have consented, to write these few lines of preface to a book which might otherwise have been introduced under more brilliant auspices.