Edrisi, However (I. P. 428), Names A Place Called
KANAT-UL-SHAM As The First March In Going From Jiruft
To Walashjird.
Walashjird is, I imagine, represented by Galashkird, Major R. Smith's
third march from Jiruft (see my Map of
Routes from Kerman to Hormuz); and
as such an indication agrees with the view taken below of Polo's route,
I am strongly disposed to identify Kanat-ul-Sham with his castello or
walled village of Canosalmi.
["Marco Polo's Conosalmi, where he was attacked by robbers and lost the
greater part of his men, is perhaps the ruined town or village Kamasal
(Kahn-i-asal = the honey canal), near Kahnuj-i-pancheh and Vakilabad in
Jiruft. It lies on the direct road between Shehr-i-Daqianus (Camadi) and
the Nevergun Pass. The road goes in an almost due southerly direction. The
Nevergun Pass accords with Marco Polo's description of it; it is very
difficult, on account of the many great blocks of sandstone scattered upon
it. Its proximity to the Bashakird mountains and Mekran easily accounts
for the prevalence of robbers, who infested the place in Marco Polo's
time. At the end of the Pass lies the large village Shamil, with an old
fort; the distance thence to the site of Hormuz or Bender 'Abbas (lying
more to the west) is 52 miles, two days' march. The climate of Bender
'Abbas is very bad, strangers speedily fall sick, two of my men died
there, all the others were seriously ill." (Houtum-Schindler, l.c. pp.
495-496.) Major Sykes (ch.
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