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| Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1 |
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| Record of sick, out-door and in-door patients, treated at the Dispensary of the Káshghar Embassy from the 1st November 1873, at Sánjú, to the 24th May 1874, at Kokyar. |
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| ( 69 Surgical operations.—(concluded) | ) Congenital deformity. |
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| Bullet, excision ... | 1 | Harelip ... | 5 |
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| Calculus vesicce, lithotomy ... | 3 | Hypospadia of urethra and fis- |
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| Teeth, extraction ... ... | 34 | sure of scrotum ... ... | 1 |
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| Ulcer sinus, incision | 8 |
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The above table shows the numbers of sick of each disease who applied for medical aid at the Embassy Dispensary from the day of entering the settled country at Si*, and during our stay at Yarkand, Yang' Hissar, and Kashghar, up to our arrival at Kokyar, and departure thence for India. Whilst it testifies to the eagerness with which European medical aid is sought by the people of Ka.shghar, it may also be taken as a fair exponent of the diseases from which they suffer.
Natural productions.—These may be very briefly noticed here under the heads of Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral.
Animal.—Kashgharia, in its wide expanse of desert plain, and its long ranges of elevated mountain plateaux, is the native home of the primeval parent stocks of some of man's most useful domestic animals on the Asiatic Continent. Here are found on the soft saline deserts, where no other foot can tread, the double-humped wild camel of Tartary, the yciwahiga of the natives. It is described as a small animal but little larger than a horse, and with neat slim built limbs : particulars in which it differs little from its domestic congener here. I was surprised at the diminutive size, and clean formed limbs of many of the camels we saw in the Kirghiz camps (so different from the tall ungainly brutes one is familiar with in India), and noticed that their cry is as different as their form from that of the Indian variety of the species. The wild animal, according to the concurrent testimony of independent witnesses and authorities, is hunted in the vicinity of Lob and Turfan for the sake of its wool.
The wild horse or akin breeds in the hollows of the sandy ridges bordering the desert, and in the valleys of the great mountain ranges bounding it; and in the latter situations not unfrequently shares the pasture with the Kirghiz herds of its domesticated kindred species.
The wild ox or dads (bos grunniens) is only found at the highest elevations under the snow line and is a huge animal with long shaggy hair. The domestic animal in the possession of the Kirghiz of M iztagh and Sârigh Kû1 is a much smaller brute, and nearly as vicious and intractable as his untamed brother. The hybrid between the wild male and the domestic cow, however, is a highly valued, most useful, and productive creature with all the virtues.of the domestic breed improved by the stamina of the wild blood. The wild clads is occasionally hunted, but with great caution owing to its ferocity and courage when brought to bay.
The Ovis Ammon or raos is said only to be found on the Tibet border about the Ttghdumba..sh and Mi ztagh, and the Ovis Poli or ghûlja on all the Pamir steppes and the plateaux of Alatagh. Sarigh Kû1 seems to be the limit between them, the one not going further north, and the other not coming further south. But the Ibex or takica has no such limitation, and is found on Alatagh to the north as on the NW mountains to the south.
The stag or bûghû male, and marl female,. haunts the forest borders along the river courses on the mid plain, and is hunted for its antlers, which are an article of commerce with China. The deer or antelope, called kiyik, herds in the lower valleys and on the sand hills bordering the desert ; in the former localities it often gets mixed up with the flocks of the Kirghiz shepherds. There is another antelope, called jirczn, which is only found on the higher plateaux of the Karakoram and A1ay, and is usually seen in couples or singly. It is probably the Lyre horned antelope of Tibet.
The hare, called tâoskedn by Kashgharis and cûyan by AndijR.nis, is common in the brushwood of the lower valleys, and in the pasture wastes bordering the settlements on the plain.
The other wild animals are the tiger=yolbârs, the panther=molûn, the lynx= sulésun, the wolf= bori, the fox T tûlki, and a similar animal called Barigh Cûyurugh or yellow-tail." These are with the wild pig= tonguz all found on the plain country, and, excepting the first, in winter all develop a thick coat of fur ; for the sake of which, excepting the last, they are
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