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Innermost Asia : vol.1 |
| 極奥アジア : vol.1 |
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not previously touched by me. Darēl and Tangīr are ground lying on the most direct route
between them, and thus a visit to this as yet unexplored area was possible without too great a
sacrifice of time, an important consideration in my programme. The arrangements with Rāja
Pakhtūn Wālī for my contemplated visit needed cautious preparation and diplomatic handling.
But the kind interest shown in my plan by the Honourable (now Sir) Stuart Fraser, then Resident
in Kashmīr, was of great assistance, and finally his effective help, given with the assent of the
Foreign Department of the Government of India, secured for me the chief's permission to visit
his territories. The conditions he thought fit to attach to it were obviously meant in the first
place to safeguard his political interests ; but their acceptance was made all the more expedient
by the fact that incidentally they appeared also conducive to my safety among his newly won
but by no means yet resigned subjects.
Joined by
surveyors. Final sanction of my expedition reached me only towards the close of May, 1913, and owing
to the time occupied by the many practical preparations which could not be undertaken before,
and by the negotiations which had to be carried on with Rāja Pakhtūn Wālī through the kind
offices of Major (now Colonel) A. D. Macpherson, Political Agent at Gilgit, I was unable to
leave my Kashmīr base at Srinagar until the last day of July. During the preceding week I had
been joined there by my trusted old travel companion, Rai Bahādur Lāl Singh, Sub-Assistant
Superintendent of the Survey of India, and a second surveyor, Muḥammad Yāqūb Khān.
Colonel Sir Sidney Burrard, Surveyor-General of India, had kindly placed their services at my
disposal for the proposed geographical work of my journey, together with all necessary surveying
equipment and a grant to cover their travelling expenses.
Other
Indian
assistants. At Srinagar there joined me also two other Indian assistants, who, though new to Central-
Asian travel, proved both excellent selections for their respective spheres of work. In Naik
Shamsuddīn (since a Jamādār), of the First K.G.O. Sappers and Miners, whom Colonel Tylden-
Patterson, R.E., commanding that distinguished corps, had chosen for me, I found a most helpful
' handy man ' for all work requiring technical skill. The other assistant, Miān Afrāz-gul Khān,
a Pathān of the saintly Kāka-khēl clan and a sepoy of the Khyber Rifles, was my own choice,
and the record of our labours will show how fortunate it was. Originally a schoolmaster on the
Peshawar border, he had soon after his enlistment in that famous Frontier Militia Corps been
noticed for his topographical sense. After he had passed with distinction through the Military
Surveyors' Class at Roorkee, he was permitted by the late Sir George Roos-Keppel, Chief Com-
missioner of the North-West Frontier Province and Honorary Colonel of the Regiment, to help
me as temporary draughtsman and surveyor at the excavations carried out by me in the spring of
1912 at the site of Sahrī-bahlōl in the Peshawar valley. In this and in subsequent work on the
plans illustrating my Serindia he gave proof of marked and varied ability. When in addition
I became aware of his energy and genuine love of adventure, I felt assured of his special fitness
to render help as an assistant surveyor. Ample experience was also to prove the great value of
his assistance in archaeological work, an assistance often given under most trying conditions.
Start from
Kashmīr. On the 31st of July, 1913, we left Srinagar and proceeding by boat down that ancient highway
of Kashmīr, the Jhelam or Vyath (Skr. Vitastā, Hydaspes), reached next day the little port of
Bandipur on the Volur lake, the Mahāpadmasaras of Kashmīr Sanskrit texts. From there the
bulk of our baggage was dispatched under the care of Muḥammad Yāqūb Khān and Naik
Shamsuddin by the Gilgit Transport Road to await us in Hunza.¹ I myself with R. B. Lāl Singh
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