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Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899-1902 : vol.2 | |
1899-1902年の中央アジア旅行における科学的成果 : vol.2 |
カヌーに乗るロプ人。A LOPMAN IN A CANOE. | |
クン・チェケのサトマ。SATMAS IN KUN-TSCHEKE. |
POPULATION OF EAST TURKESTAN. 603
embraced in these 985 are for census purposes of minor significance. Add to these, 14o other villages which I noted during my 1899—I90o journeys, mostly from dis-
* tricts which I did not touch in the course of my former journey. Of this last total forty places are situated in the Lop country, and as I shall make a separate calculation for that part of the region, I may in the meantime disregard these forty. Let me say then, that we have I,000'villages from the former journey and loo from the latter; this gives us some I,Ioo in all. The difficulty that remains is to ascertain how many are left out of account. By way of a preliminary estimate I should set down the number in this category along the Maral-baschi-Korla road at I00, and for the rest of East Turkestan at 200, so that we thus have a grand total of 1,400 villages, a figure which there is every reason to believe is not too high an estimate.
But difficult though it is to determine the number of the villages, it is even more difficult to arrive at
even an approximate idea of the num-
ber of the inhabitants. When you ask a bek as to the number of people in
the village over which he exercises
authority, he will tell you, not how
many individuals there are, but how
many households the village possesses,
and the word he will employ, ujlik,
meaning »steading», »family», »household», is rather elastic. By ujlik the Turks mean in general the number
of persons who eat out of one and the same cooking-pot at meal-times, that is to say, the man and his wife, the children and servants, and very often also the sons' wives and the grandchildren. Thus an ujlik may embrace fifty persons, though it is seldom that it does so; but on the other hand there are ujlik which consist of only two
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Fig. 265. A LOPMAN IN A CANOE.
Fig. 266. SATMAS IN KUM-TSCHEKE.
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