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Innermost Asia : vol.2 |
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Reunion
of survey
parties at
Korla.
Korla was the place appointed for the reunion of our four surveying parties, and there I had
the satisfaction of seeing in succession Lāl Singh, Afrāz-gul, and Muḥammad Yāqūb safely arrive,
after completing their respective tasks. Lāl Singh had succeeded in carrying his triangulation
from Singer through the western Kuruk-tāgh to the low hills in the immediate vicinity of Korla.
His dogged perseverance had enabled him to overcome at the cost of much toil and privation the
exceptional difficulties due both to the very broken nature of that barren hill region and to the
adverse atmospheric conditions; for he had encountered a succession of violent dust-storms,
such as we too had experienced farther south and as are usual at this season. Had he proved to
be right in his identification of the distant snowy peak on the Āltin-tāgh which he had sighted in
December from the Altmish-bulak side after enduring great and prolonged hardships, the reward
would have been the successful linking I had aimed at, of the T'ien-shan range with the triangula-
tion system of the Survey of India extended by us along the northernmost K'un-lun. Afrāz-gul,
after leaving me beyond Ying-p'an, had carried his plane-table traverse from Tikenlik by the main
road along the Yārkand-daryā to the Konche-daryā at Kara-kum, and thence had completely
surveyed the previously unmapped portion of the river-course up to Korla. Muḥammad Yāqūb
had reached Korla before me from Turfān by the high road. After depositing there my Chinese
secretary and spare baggage, he had started on the survey he had been directed to carry round
the shores of the Baghrash lake. But difficulties in securing transport delayed him and prevented
the extension of the work beyond the point where the track coming from Singer down the Āltun-ghol
strikes the lake shore (Map No. 25. c. 1).
Irrigation
resources of
Korla.
My stay at Korla, in the chief Mullah's pleasant garden, was fully occupied with various
practical work in connexion with our respective future moves, with the revision of all mapping work
done by our several parties since leaving Turfān, &c. Such local information as I gathered has
already been utilized in the account given in Serindia of Korla and its ancient sites.¹ I have also
fully discussed, in the same work, the data supplied by the Chinese historical texts which prove the
identity of the Korla tract with the small kingdom of Wei-hsü 危 須 and its close connexion
with Yen-ch'i or Kara-shahr. Since my former visit in 1907 the reclaiming of new land had
steadily proceeded. With such an abundance of water for irrigation as is to be found in no other
oasis of the Tārīm basin, a great inrush of new colonists from the side of Kuchā and Turfān was
said to be kept back only by the tenacity with which the people of Korla were maintaining their
claims to all ground capable of cultivation. Nevertheless reclamation was extending rapidly
westwards, where the new colony of Ellik-ketman was just being laid out and inspected by the
district magistrate of Kara-shahr. The statement made to me by Qādir Bēg, one of the old headmen
of the oasis, that the population was officially reckoned at 600 households before the Muḥammadan
rebellion and now, including the detached settlements to the south, counted close on 3,000, seemed
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