国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

EXCURSION TO EASTERN PAMIR, SUMMER 1894.

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huts are built. Here is also the burial place of the region with three guinu es orr tomb monuments. The Kirgizes of this place, and of Keng-kol and Charu, , are Kipchak. One and a half hour's journey down the Charling- is the aul of 7ilande;

still lower down is a place called Togan-turuk; one lash still further down are two jilgas: Terek-vse to the right with three inhabited huts, and to the left Yandakoli with Kirgiz yeilaks. From Chihil-gumbes there are three roads: to Keng-kol, to Yarkand and to Tagarma. Merchants' caravans pass often between the two

last-mentioned places. The climate is the same as at Keng-kol. The greatest part of the rain falls in the early summer.

On July I st we had to cross the pass of Ter-art. From the camp we had 6 km. W. S. W. to the pass, the altitude of which is 4,040 ni., the rise being 874 m. and the rate I : 6.9; on the other side we had 7.6 km. west and south, descending to 2,884 m. at Pas-rabat, or a descent of 1,156 m. at a rate of r: 6.6. On both sides the slopes therefore are very steep.

The eastern Ter-art jilga had no water. The pass had the same rounded

forms as Kashka-su-davan. The rocks consist of the same crystalline schists as hitherto, near the pass standing vertically N. W.—S. E. On the western side the road proceeds by an extremely narrow gorge with some water between erosion terraces. In its upper part the valley is gravelly, in the lower the ground is soft and grass-grown ; willows appear here and there. There is a good deal of blocks. The brook gets an affluent from Boramsal-jilga. At 3 o'clock p. m. the valley got filled with light fog brought hither by the S. E. wind, and at 7 o'clock it began to rain. The valley becomes broader gradually. Along the base of the mountains are very migthy erosion terraces, which lower down are swept away along the left side, but on the right continue down to Pas-rabat. Their height above the floor of the valley is 5o m. and more.

We camped at the karaul-khaneh and aul of Pas-rabat, where three families

of 13 individuals, Kesek Kirgizes, lived. In the vertical erosion terrace opposite the camp was a round grotto 4.3 m. above the floor, containing some horns of wild goats and some hay. West of the pass we only heard three names of jilgas, viz. to the left Toshkan jilga and to the right Teke-sekerik with, in its higher regions, a road to Boramsal-jilga and Kara jilga-davan; then to the right the large Boramsal-

jilga with a road to Kara-task-davan, situated somewhere N. W. The Boramsaljilga may be regarded as the main valley, and the western Ter-art as a tributary to it. At Pas-rabat the Tengi-tar valley comes from the west and then the joined river is called Pas-rabat the whole way down to its junction with the Taghdumbashdarya or Shinde River. The Tengi-lar had near the confluence a breadth of I o m.

and a maximum depth of 0.4 m.

At the aul of Pas-rabat, which was called Toil-bulung, Toile-bulung or Toyil6ulung; the landscape is very picturesque, looking up the Boramsal valley with mountain