The Frontiers of Baluchistan: Travels on the borders of Persia and Afghanistan by G.P. Tate

George Passman Tate headed the surveys undertaken by two missions that determined large parts of the borders of Afghanistan, the Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission of 1895-96 and the Seistan Arbitration Mission of 1903-5. Most of the book is taken up by Tate’s account of the Seistan Mission. He describes the journey overland from Quetta to eastern Iran(Western Balochistan) and the region of the marshy Hamun-i Helmand (present-day Daryacheh-ye Hamun) fed by the Helmand River. Tate offers vivid descriptions of the harsh and forbidding climate, the famous “Wind of 120 Days,” Helmand River and the people, economy, and social conditions of the region.