Balochestan naksha

If Harry de Windt, that dashing 19th century Long Rider, had been allowed to follow his original plan, he would have galloped to India via the Central Asian satraps of His Imperial Russian Highness. When suspicious St. Petersburg put a halt to Harry’s Russian route, the intrepid equestrian explorer determined to reach his goal via the Shah’s empire instead.

What followed was a ride to remember as Harry de Windt, lecturer, author, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and equestrian explorer par excellence, saddled up in 1890 and set off to examine the forgotten corners of Persia and Baluchistan.

Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt (Paris, 1856 - 1933) was the ADC to the Rajah of Sarawak, an explorer and author of many books about his travels (overland from Paris to New York via Siberia, Peking to Paris, Russia to India via Persia, Trough Savage Europe), to name a few.

The following is an excerpt from his journal, with accounts of local customs in Baluchistan some of which were completely barbaric.