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0115 Southern Tibet : vol.9
Southern Tibet : vol.9 / Page 115 (Color Image)

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THE LAST DAYS' JOURNEY TO KASHGAR.

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to Charlung which often is used by Chinese officials. Then follows again a wide desolate space or sai to Yaka-arik, a large village irrigated by an arik from the river. From this place there is no direct road to the mountains. Yaka-arik is the common name of a group of villages, amongst others Langar and Tokmakla. The large irrigation canal continues to Kok-rabal.

To the last-mentioned village we had, the next day, a ride of 19.8 km. to the north and N. W. The ground falls 71 m. or to 1,293 m.; a rate of 1:279. The entire distance takes us through villages, of which Choglik and Sai-langar are the largest. Before reaching Kok-rabal we enter the great caravan-road from Yarkand to Kashgar. Here we were on well-known tracks, and I will only mention

the names of the places we passed during the last four days from Kok-rabal to Kashgar, September 3oth: the ruins of Abdullah-Khan-rabat, Ak-rabal, with a well 36.3 m. deep and a constant temperature of 15.5°; Ötekchi, an abandoned rest house; Kisil, a village — its only road to Sarikol runs by Igis yar, the same I have described above. At Kisil and several other places on this road I was told that the prevailing wind in summer came from the N. W. and often was very strong, whereas nearly no wind blew in winter. A ruined place below Kisil is called Teter-mesjid.

October 1st we passed through the villages Kuduk, Kosh-gombaz, Toflok

and Kelj5in ; and camped in the village of Karavash, belonging to Yangi-hisar. Just south of the village is a large river-bed with a dam forcing the water to flow by a canal at the left bank. The river then runs to the villages Khoja-ark, 1llangslain, Sagan and Momoluk, from which a road goes to Ordan-Padshah and HasrelBegiln. The water of the river-bed was said to come from the valley Kamj5an, inhabited by Kipchak Kirgizes, and to pass by Lai-bulak and Kaghui. The water of Yangi-hisar itself comes from Khan-terek.

October 2nd we continued by Seïdlar and Sogoluk to Yapchan, and the last day by Tasgun and Yangi-shahr to Kashgar. Our road from Kok-rabat to Kashgar was 142 km. in length. In Yakub Bek's time the distance between Yarkand and Kashgar was reckoned as 27 lash, now it is 54 Chinese ,otai.

The whole journey from Kashgar through Eastern Pamir and back to Kashgar was 1,241.5 km. in length.