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

> > > >
カラー New!IIIFカラー高解像度 白黒高解像度 PDF   日本語 English
0023 The Heart of a Continent : vol.1
大陸深奥部 : vol.1
The Heart of a Continent : vol.1 / 23 ページ(カラー画像)

New!引用情報

doi: 10.20676/00000247
引用形式選択: Chicago | APA | Harvard | IEEE

OCR読み取り結果

 

   

CONTENTS.

xv

         

CHAPTER XII.

BY THE SKIRTS OF THE PAMIRS TO HUNZA.

PAGE

The Raskam River—Letters from Lieutenant Bower and Major Cumberland—I dispose of my ponies—Captain Grombtchevsky—His equipment—The Cossacks—Russian soldiers and their work—Inspection of my Gurkhas—Gurkhas and Cossacks—A pleasant incident—Kurba Pass—Taghdumbash Pamir—Ilisu—Kuch Mohammed Bey—I go to Tashkurgan—Major Cumberland and Lieutenant Bower—The Sarikolis—Fugitives from ShignanThe Taghdumbash Pamir—To the Khunjerab Pass—Ovis poli—Curious shining particles—A stalk—To the Mintaka Pass—Chinese official—Offended dignity—Dismissing my Kirghiz—Their greediness—We cross the Mintaka —Across the Indus watershed—An interesting valley—Misgah—A Hunza Arbap—His greed—Gircha—Visit from the Prime Minister, Wazir DaduGulmit—A state reception—Safder Ali—I take a seat—A business interview —Safder Ali and Alexander the Great—The right to raid—A heated discussion—Firing exercises—An undignified ruler—I leave Gulmit—The fate of Safder Ali—Gilgit--Return to Kashmir—I take leave of my Gurkhas ... 266

CHAPTER XIII.

TO THE PAMIRS- 1890.

Previous travellers in the Pamirs—My companion, Mr. George Macartney—Leh —Messrs. Beech and Lennard—We reach Yarkand—Unchanging character of Central Asian cities—Arrival of Captain Grombtchevsky—A curious dinner-party — We start for the Roof of the World — Tashkurgan—The Neza-tash Pass—The Little Pamir—Characteristics of a Pamir—Vegetation —Severity of the cold—The Kirghiz—Aktash—Across the Little Pamir—The Istigh River—Alichur Pamir—Ak-chak-tash—Hot springs—Ovis poll —Somatash—The inscribed stone at Bash Gumbaz—Scene of the conflict between the Russians and Afghans in 1892—Routes to the Alichur Pamir —The valley of the Aksu—Sarez—Murghabi—Russian outposts—The Akbaital—Rang-kul—The mysterious Lamp Rock—The mystery explained—To the Kara-kul Lake—Kizil Jek Pass—Kara-art Pass—Down the Markan-su to Opal—Arrival in Kashgar—Winter quarters—Chinese gongs

—M. Petrovsky ...   ...   • • •   ... 291

CHAPTER XIV.

A WINTER IN KASHGAR.

^Official visits—The Chinese Taotai and general—A Chinese opinion of European civilization—General Wang—The barracks—Discipline and occupations of the soldiers—Rifle practice—Cosmopolitan Kashgar—Central Asian traders —Opinions of the Afghan Amir of British and Russian rule—Impressions of Russian power—Effects of our retirement from Afghanistan in 1881M. Petrovsky—His views about England—About treatment of natives in India—About the Crimea—Russian carelessness about learning languages —M. Blanc—Dr. Sveyn Hedin—M. Dutreuil de Rhins—Subsequently