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0638 Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1
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Appendix III.

DISTRICT MARKETS, 20TH JANUARY 1874.

TARA SING'S REPORT.

I started on the 1st January to visit the bazaars in the Kashghar circuit.

I halted, on the night of the 1st, at the village of Yandûma about 10 miles distant from

Yangi-Shahr; this is a village of some 60 houses; as far as this point I had travelled on the Aksu road.

2nd January. I reached " Shumba Bazar" about 20 miles from Yandûma ; the name of the village where this bazaar is held is Jewatchi ; there are about 80 houses in this village, which is in the district of Kizzil-ûi ; there are two serais here for travellers.

In the Kizzil-ûi district there are altogether about 790 houses.

3rd January. There was a bazaar held at Jewatchi : stalls were temporarily occupied

as follows :-

30 Bakers.   6 Carpenters.

4 Iron-smiths.   30 Cutlery, &c., spices.

30 Agents for buying cotton.   20 Sellers of fruit, &c.

15 Sheep butchers.   10 Purchasers of country cloth.

2 Beef   ditto.   5 Basket sellers.

10 Sellers of hats.   6 Tinkers.
10 Ditto of boots.

In addition many hawkers of silk, cotton, thread, &c.

There are only ten permanent shops in this place, and on the evening of the bazaar-day the whole of the stalls are vacated.

About 6,000 men assembled on bazaar-day.

Men collect from Kashghar, Faizabad, Artush, Yangi Hissar, and a few men from Yarkand.

SALE DURING ONE BAZAAR-DAY.

lhngas.

* Cotton cloth, of local manufacture, 40,000 thans, average price 2 tungas   80,000

* Cotton, 50 maunds, at 8 arenas per charak   2,000

Miscellaneous goods, silk, tea, &c.   1,200

Numd'âhs   225

t Grain   3,000

Sheep (100 sheep)   1,400

Oxen (6)   300

Fruit   .   400

Small articles, not included   240

Rupees 17,745 = 88,725

' The above represents an average day's business on bazaar days at Shumba Bazaar.

The revenue of the Kizzil-ûi district is as follows :—One-tenth of the produce of grain of all kinds = 38,000 charaks. With every 30 charaks of grain the Hakim will claim one donkey load of straw, or an equivalent amounting to 1 tanga 36 puls ; this represents 12,664 loads, or 21,785 tangas 26 puls.

* Purchased for conveyance to Kashghar and Yarkand.

1 Of the grain sold the rice had come from Aksu and Yarkand districts ; it was selling at 3 tangas a charak. Mukki from, Yarkand district, 1 tanga 10 puls per charak. Wheat from Yarkand district, 1 tanga 30 puls per charak.