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0570 Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1
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[Figure] ROUTE XI. Route from Kila Panjah (WAKHAN) to Kila Wámar (ROSHAN) along the river Panjah. Authority Captain Trotter (from Abdul Subhan)-concluded.

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ROUTE XI.

.doute from Kila Panjah (1174KH4N) to Kila Wamar (ROSHAN) along the river Panjah. Authority Captain Trotter (from Abdul Subhan)—concluded.

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Names of places.

Country or district.

Distance in miles.

REMARKS.

8

Darmârakht   ...

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Shighna,n   ...

11f

Camp on the left bank.   Darmârakht is on the opposite

bank from whence supplies are procured by means of a wooden bridge thrown across the river, which is about

 

 

 

 

150 yards wide here.   From Nawaba,d at 3 miles is the

large village of Shekh Beg in ruins, and further on the road runs through a. tunnel called Kuguz Pali'', or " hole

in the rock."   Road bad and stony.   The Kuguz Parin
in the boundary between Ghstran and Shighnan.

9

Viâr   ...   ...

Ditto   ...

14f

A scattered village of about 40 houses.   At two miles from

 

 

 

 

Darmaralht a large tributary of the Panjah river called

 

 

 

 

Arakht is crossed by a strong wooden bridge.   At 9f

miles the road ascends and traverses the Mithinz and

 

 

 

 

Tarseb passes.   Road bad and stony.   Supplies plentiful.

10

Kila Bar Panjah   ...

Ditto   ...

A large town on the left bank, the capital of Shighna,n.

 

 

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Adjacent to it stands a stone fort on the margin of the

river.   At Dasht-i-Khust, the river Sudan falls into the

 

 

 

 

Panjah.   At 32 miles is the small village of Deh-i-Mur-

gha,n.   Road good.   Supplies plentiful.

11

Sicharb   ...

Ditto   ...

9

A village of 20 houses on the right bank.   S Lcharb is

reached by crossing the river either by ferry at Kila Bar

 

 

 

 

Panjah, or by ford at the village of Dishâr at 3 miles

lower down.   Yumj village is at 41 miles from Sacharb.

 

 

 

 

Road good.   Supplies plentiful.

12

Kila Wimar   ...

Roshan   ...

22
.

A large town, the capital of   Roshan, situated about 12

miles above the junction of the Murgha,bi river with the

 

 

 

 

Panjah.   Fort and town on the high bank of the Panjah.

 

 

 

 

At 13 miles is the small village of Past Khizf.   At 1E

miles stands the Darband tower, built on a rock.   This

is the boundary between Shignân and Roshan.

 

 

Total distance   ...

161f

 

ROUTE XII.

YÂRKAND TO AKSU. AUTHORITY, CAPTAIN CHAPMAN.

BHAN SING.

FROM YÂRKAND TO AKSÜ AND ONWARDS.

1. Yârkand, Terek Langar, 7 talla,* Ek Shamba and Char Shamba Bazaars en route ; cultivation and gardens to within one mile of the halting ground.

* NOTE.—A tash is the ordinary uuit of measurement of distances in Eastern Turkistan, and on many of the principal roads tash-boards have been errected similar to the wooden sign posts, still existing in some parts of England. They were put up between Khotan and Kashghar shortly after the accession of the present Ruler, but the Yarkand road the following measurements were made by Kishen Sing Pandit :-

From 1st to   5th Tash Post   ...   ...

Number cf
paces.

36,350

Average number
of paces per
tash.

9,112

5th to 8th

 

...

27,880

92,93

8th to 11th

 

...

26,800

8,933

 

 

 

Mean value of each tash   ...

 

9,113

or almost exactly 42 English statute miles. Theoretically the tash is equal to 12,000 paces of a riding camel,

and it is by means of this measure that the distances are said to have been laid out between Yarkand and Kashghar.—[H. T.]