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0477 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
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894   INDEX

Caravanserai in Caspian Sea, at Aboskun, 340; at Baku, 340.

Carcases, of dead horses in Karakorum, 82, 83; of men in Lop desert, 273.

Carnegie Institution, 9, 106. See Pumpelly Expedition.

Caribbean Sea, resemblance to Lop basin, 99.

Carthage, ruins of, 369.

Carts, on road to Kashmir among Himalayas, 21; of officials at Khotan, 154; at Kara-Sher, 276; of Khirghiz, 131; in Turfan, 299; in Dzungaria, 305.

Caspian basin, relation to changes of climate, 315.

Caspian gulf, 335.

Caspian Sea, chap. xvii, 329-358; ancient knowledge of, 329-337; transitional low level of, 341; mediæval high level of, 341-349; modern changes of, 349, 350; curve of fluctuations of, 349; evidences of change of climate in, 338, 339, 350, 351; old strands of, 337; ruins in, 340; southern coast of, 323; supposed northern outlet of, 334; supposed underground outlet of, 344.

Cataracts of Oxus River, 348.

Cattle, of Chantos, 137; at Sanju, 91; in Tian Shan, 109.

Cattle-plague at Leh, 59.

Caucasus mountains, Alexandrine idea of, 330, 333.

Cave-dwellings in Lop basin, 155. Ceh, a Persian town, 316.

Central Asia, Significance of, Introduction, 1-16; acquaintance with, 9, 10; aridity of, 8, 9; as a geographic type, 7-9; summary description of, 7.

Central Asian cycles of climatic change, 366.

Central Asian railroad, 87, 338. Centripetal rivers of Turfan, 308. Chahbar, a Persian town, 316. Chaka, Chanto village, 162.

Chang La, 60, 67, 71-73, 78. Change, effect of, upon Khirghiz, 127.

Changeable geographic facts, 360.

Changes of climate, see Climate. Changes in Kashmir, 35.

Channel, old, of Oxus, 343; of Jaxartes, 343, 345; of Yartungaz, 212. Chanto hunter, 277.

Chanto pilgrim, 88-90.

Chantos, the, chap. xi, 223-238. Chantos at base of mountains, chap. vii, 153-168.

Chantos, affability of, 191; amusements of, 147; anxiety rare among,

234 ; apathy of, 158 ; character

of, 138-140, 145, 151, 157, 186,
191-193, 225 ff., 260, 265; com-

fort of, 233; conservatism of, 140,

145; contentment of, 138, 140,
145, 227; contrasted with Khir-

ghiz, 223; courtesy of, 139, 144,

226; cowardice of, 125, 151, 210;
curiosity among, 229; dress of,

136, 142, 143; features of, 139;

flocks of, 149; food of, 137; for-
mality among, 152; future of,

236; good temper of, 227; habits

of eating, 137, 143; habits of
sleeping, 96; hair of, 139; happy

condition of, 234; hard-hearted-

ness of, 230; hospitality of, 142-
147, 150, 198; immigrants to Tur-

fan, 313; immorality of, 231; in-

fluence of deserts upon, 361; lan-
guage of, 139; meaning of name,

138; national feeling among, 138;
number of, 138; origin of, 139;
patience of, 227; politeness of,

198; a product of oasis life, 233;
profanity of, 228; quarrel among,

241; race of, 138; relation of, to

environment, 223 ff.; relation of, to Lopliks, 246; unreliability of, 191. Character, influence of environment upon, 140, 145, 361; of Chantos,

138-140, 145, 151, 186, 191-193, 277; of Chinese, 89; of Khirghiz, 110, 112, 117; of Ladakhis, 60-63, 73.

Charcoal at Bagrash Kul, 276.

Charklik, or Lop, village, Chinese at, 141; importance of, 241; old

road from, 290, 291; ruins at, 281; settlement of, 219, 246; stay at, 241-243; mentioned, 220, 223, 239.