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0590 Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1
Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1 / Page 590 (Color Image)

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  1.  Booksam (or Bask Bonkeem) .

  2.  Kolu.

  3.  Badlik Kotagh (or Bedelik Kudok).

  4. Nurs-shakiim.   Stages through desert

  5. Balfuz-nakiim.

  6. Khal.

  7. Darialoe.

  8. Mahtung. Here cultivation is encountered.

  9. Karatal (Kkaratal) .

  10. Besh-turkimirum (Besh-arik) .

  11. Aksii.

These are stages for donkeys, the chief trade being carried on with donkeys-copper, rice, iron, gold silk, and country cotton cloths going from Khotan. A trader with horses will accomplish the journey in 10 stages.

NOTE.-This route would appear to be reliable. Names in italics are found by me in Klaproth's Map.-H. T.

ROUTE XXIV.

FROM Khotan TO Poll (DIRECT). AUTHORITY CAPTAIN CHAPMAN, FROM NATIVE INFORMATION.

Khotan to-

  1. Sampiila   ...   ... 3 tash.   1

  2. Hasha   ...   ... 3 tash.   These six marches are through

  3. Ganju-tagh   . . .   ... 3 tash. A large town.   cultivated lands with small

  4. Mira ...   ...   ... 4 tash.   villages. No rivers encoun-

  5. Imam Mazar or Chehar Imam, 4 tash.   I tend.

  6. Polu ...   . . .   ... 5 tash.

NOTE.-This route agrees very well with another procured by me from a different source.-H. T.

ROUTE XXV.

KHOTAN TO CHARCHAND AND KURLA. AUTHORITY CAPTAIN TROTTER, COMPILED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES OF NATIVE INFORMATION.

Khotan to-

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  6.   

  1.  Naia. At a day's journey from Naia in a southerly direction lie the

Sorghak gold fields. The river, from Sorghak flows by Naia and passes in a northerly direction to Mazar Imam Jafr Sadik, a favourite place of pilgrimage, two days' journey north of Naia. From Naia to Charchand lie two roads across the desert, the northern road passes the camps of-

9.

Baliklik.

14.

Kara Buran.

10.

Yer-tunguz.

15.

Yantagh Kuduk.

11.

Haidil-shah Kuduk.

16.

Kok-muran.

12.

Andhira.

17.

Yang-arik.

13.

Shiodang.

18.

Charchand.

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16-i Miles.   )

 

1..

Ch ira

35

 

Karakia ...

25

 

 

Kiria   ...

27i

Vide Route XIV.

Ui Toghrak

15

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Yessulghun.

 

 

 

Auras.

 

 

 

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