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taken. The first party from Charchan, after capturing the Bēg and what valuables they could
secure at Vāsh-shahri, had proceeded quickly to Charkhlik, pretending to have been sent by the
order of the Tao-t'ai of Kāshgar to arrest the Amban on an accusation of anti-revolutionary
plotting. Attacked in his Ya-mén at nightfall and deserted by his attendants and the local headmen
whom he had hurriedly gathered, the helpless magistrate had had to flee for life. He hid in a culti-
vator's house for the night ; but his refuge was betrayed, and when the bandits set fire to the place
in the morning and forced him to come out he was struck down and captured, all the local Muham-
madans looking on with placid indifference. He was then subjected to tortures until he disclosed
the place where his official moneys were hidden, and after some days cruelly put to death.
Revolu- The leader of the band of ' patriots ' had set himself up as Amban ad interim and was duly
tionary
régime at obeyed by the local headmen, Rōze Bēg himself included. The Ya-mén establishment promptly
Charkhlik.
resumed work under him ; a letter justifying the ' patriots' ' action was duly dispatched to the
Governor-General at Urumchi, and for a few days all seemed to go on smoothly, while the party
helped themselves freely to what good things and money the head-quarters of the poor Lop district
could offer. Fortunately the new Amban's ' revolutionary ' régime proved short-lived, and the
introduction addressed to him which I had brought from Charchan proved as useless as that
addressed to his predecessor. Within less than a week there arrived from far-away Kara-shahr
in the north a small detachment of reliable Tungan troops. The previous Amban had been fore-
warned and had summoned help ; they came too late to save him, but quickly avenged his murder.
Commanded by a capable young officer and stealthily introduced at night into the oasis by the
same adaptable Bēgs, these soldiers found little difficulty in surprising the ' revolutionaries '.
Most of them were killed in their sleep, their leader dispatched after brief resistance, and the rest
captured. So tranquillity reigned once more at Charkhlik, and Rōze Bēg was now displaying his
zeal as a supporter of legitimate authority, by laying an ambush for more ' patriots ' expected
to come from Charchan, eager to share the spoils of ' office ' and ignorant of the turn affairs at
Charkhlik had taken. In this loyal task he duly succeeded within a day of my passage, thereby
adding some more captives to the list of those subsequently executed at Charkhlik.
Historical The story of this short-lived revolt deserved brief record here partly for its quasi-historical
interest of
outbreak. interest and partly because the conditions that it created at Charkhlik had some influence, as it
turned out, on the execution of my plans for the winter's work. This revolutionary coup was the
last of a succession of outbreaks that since 1912 had threatened the maintenance of proper Chinese
control, and with it of peace and order, in the Tārīm basin. Its course illustrates the traditional
weakness of the indigenous Muhammadan population ; the facility with which any adventurers
from outside, even if of a race far from warlike, can exact from it temporary obedience ; and also
the time-honoured Chinese methods of restoring order.¹⁴ I shall presently explain how the adminis-
trative confusion arising from these local events first hampered the preparations for my travels,
and then proved to be good fortune in disguise ; for it saved them from being frustrated by official
obstruction.
Ruined site I had examined the ruined site west of Vāsh-shahri when I first passed there in November,
of Vāsh-
shahri. 1906, and a full account of it has been given in Serindia.¹⁵ My rapid visit on this second occasion
revealed very few structural remains other than those previously described, and none of importance.
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