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KARAKORÛM : ROUTE 87.   65

0 B it l l u (16,883 ft.), also called Barângsa, on the Yârkand river (fuel and grass scanty)— Leave 2 miles further on the road to Yârkand and turn to the left—Pass a small salt-lake.

Encamp at the Vohdb Chilgdne plateau (16,419 ft.)—Pass several dry lake-basins, filled with incrustations of salt and separated by small ridges (passes)—Cross the Kissilkornm pass (17,762 ft.); the slopes are extremely gentle.

Encamp lower clown on the slopes, at a height of about 17,000 ft. Not a particle of grass or fuel to be seen, nor the next day, when you descend the valley, which slopes exceedingly gentle.

0 Aksde Chin, 35° 52'; 77° 51'; 16,620 ft., the name of the basin of a lake, periodically filled with water; scarcely any grass or fuel.

Route No. 87.

From the KARAKORÛM PASS (Ladâk-Turkistan) to KÂRGALIK (Turkistan).

A principal route, passable for horses. Provisions to be laid in, even for the horses, for at least eight marches. At many stages fuel, and even grass is scarce.

Literature: izzet Ullah, in Quarterly Oriental Magazine, Vol. III., 1825, pp. 115-7.

0 Ddulat Beg tilde (16,597 ft.), on the south-western foot of the Karakoram pass — Cross the Karakoram pass, 35°46'•9; 77°30'.41; 18,345 ft.

A B tic l l u (16,883 ft.), also called Barângsa, on the Yârkand river (fuel and grass scanty) .Continue to descend along the Yârkand river—p Vciliksha (15,104 ft.), grass-place with a group of fine springs.

0 Aktdgh (16,860 ft.), grass and scanty fuel (izzet Ullah's statement:—" Several small villages occur on the route from the Karakoram pass to Q Aktâgh"— is entirely false).

0 Kdpalung, on the Yârkand river ; grass scanty, and fuel also (fzzet t'illah's Khakalun).

0 Chin deb d l g u ng, grass and fuel scanty.

0 Igar Sdldi, or A lstdkna, on the Yârkand river, which is here rather narrowly enclosed by mountains—Q Bukharôldi.

AKirghis Jdng al— ASéssikBnllak—QBagh H4ji llloluintmad; much fuel and grass—QYârtubi (fzzet Ullah's Yârtuli), on the Yârkand river —Leave the Yârkand river.

A Kula n 2c l d e, at the foot of a small lateral pass—Cross the Yéngi Davin pass (fzzet Ullah's Yâgni Davin).

T o r ag i l (fzzet Ullah's Tezak Lak Payin [?]) Q Sugetlik.

Mazdr (izzet Ullah's Mizar), on the right bank of the Tesnâb river— Descend along the left bank of the Tesnâb river.

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Ta l i k — Cross the river Ulug Yailâk, an affluent of the Tesnâb river to its right— Q Kâtlish, on the right bank of the Thug Yailâk river — Cross the Tesnâb river.

Kh a l a s t ci n, a village on the left bank of the Tesnâb river, near the confluence with the Pâkhpu river (one day's journey W. of Khalastan is situated. on this river the village Pâkhpu. This village is called on Klaproth's map Takboni).

Akh Mdsfeid

Puss d r (here the merchandize of the caravans is examined and toll levied thereon) — Pass an Ilrtang, i. e. a Chinese post with Chinese soldiers and officials (fzzet Ullah says Aurtang). Urtangs are also called occasionally Langan.

K 6 k i a r, a large village of about 1,000 houses (fzzet Ullah's Koksar)-=Pass an Urtang.

'Béshtarak — Tukûyi.

Kdrgalik, 37° 34'; 74° 36', on the right bank of the Tesnâb river. For details see p. 67.

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