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Citation Information
C. G. MANNERHEIM
The stock of cattle is small, except at Lapchuk and Qara Döbe, where the quantity per village may be estimated at: horses 200, horned cattle 6-70o and sheep 4-500. Clay and manure are used. Wheat, gaolyan, barley, peas, millet, kunsjut and other oil plants are grown and the average yield may be calculated at 8 fold. The greater part of the tilled land belongs to the Wang and the quantity he sows is about 35o sacks of to poods each. (This seems very little and probably refers only to wheat.)
In the mountains E and NE of the Nansanku station on the Hami—Barkul road there are the following populated places:
Narin 15 li from the Barkul road
Kurai 15 li from Narin l
I durga district
Kizjar
Ehrgaite to li further
Nanas gorge
Timirti • » » »
Tosho .
Turkul or Tomodun with a pond (no tilled land) » » »
Artariq, in its lower course Adak » » »
Lom with water from the Adak (Wang's fields, place of exile) » » »
Baj, E of Lom » » »
Tal » » »
Adra » » »
Teruk » » »
Narin Kire (near Barkul) » » »
Hotentam » » »
Bagdash » » »
Tashar » » »
Tarahte (W of Nankansu) » » »
In most cases the names probably refer to the river or stream that waters the district. The majority of these places are said to lie N of the Baghdash mountains. Baghdash is reported always to be covered by snow. I wonder whether the local people call the Yashil kul glacier Baghdash? The name Yashil kul was unknown to my informant.
Some of these places are said to be large, open plains. Lom, which is used by the Prince as a place of exile, is a plain enclosed on all sides by mountains and so large that flight is out of the question. A horseman cannot get out of sight of the warders for a whole day. The population consists of 5o-6o yurts or houses to a durga district. There are both houses and yurts. In Teruk there are only 20 yurts and in Lom 70. — Land is only tilled on a small scale. Barley alone is grown, except at Naryn, Kurai and Kizjar, where there is also some wheat. The average crop is 9-10 fold. The principal occupation is cattlebreeding and the total livestock of all the districts is said to amount to: horses 6,000,
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