SARIKOL NALA (Caves in the)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Unspecified -caves- (note 1) reports TALBOT (1886a: 331) from a so-called Sarikol Nala (note 2): In two nalas, called respectively Darali and Sarikol, at the head of the Balkhao [Balkhab], are good many caves —50 or 60, I dare say. […] In the Sarikol I visited several. They were mostly situated a little way up the cliff and awkward to get at. Several had ledges at the inner end three or four feet wide and one foot high, as if for sitting or sleeping on. The most perfect one was a passage twenty-five to thirty feet [7.5 to 9 m] long, nine feet high, and nine to ten feet wide. The door was narrower …Unspecified -caves- (note 1) reports TALBOT (1886a: 331) from a so-called Sarikol Nala (note 2): In two nalas, called respectively Darali and Sarikol, at the head of the Balkhao [Balkhab], are good many caves —50 or 60, I dare say. […] In the Sarikol I visited several. They were mostly situated a little way up the cliff and awkward to get at. Several had ledges at the inner end three or four feet wide and one foot high, as if for sitting or sleeping on. The most perfect one was a passage twenty-five to thirty feet [7.5 to 9 m] long, nine feet high, and nine to ten feet wide. The door was narrower …