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極奥アジア : vol.2

to be well founded. My host, the 'Ta-Mullah', to give him his current half-Chinese designation,
a well-educated man who had studied in Samarkand and had also seen something of India on his
'Ḥāj', was apparently allowed a good deal of authority in the local administration, and this seemed
to promise well for the future development of an oasis singularly favoured in its unfailing water-
supply.²

On April 6th we set out in three separate parties for the long journey to Kāshgar. A variety Travel
of reasons, largely connected with my plans for travels during the summer in the Pāmīr region programme
and for work during the winter in far-off Sīstān and also with the safe packing and dispatch of to Kāshgar.
my antiquities to India, made me anxious to reach it by the close of May. Lāl Singh's task was
to keep close to the T'ien-shan and to survey as much of the main range as the early season and the
available time would permit. Muḥammad Yāqūb was sent south across the Konche and Inchike
rivers to the Yārkand-daryā with instructions to survey as much as conditions would permit of
its main channel as far as the northern edge of the Yārkand district. Most of our camels were sent
with him under very light loads, in order that they might benefit by the abundant grazing in the
riverine jungles after all their privations and before the time came when I should have to dispose
of them. I myself felt obliged, in the interests of antiquarian research, as well as in view of the
great distances to be covered within the available time—my marches between Korla and Kāshgar
aggregated some 938 miles in 55 days—to keep in the main to the long line of oases which fringes
the southern foot of the T'ien-shan.

It is along this line that the chief route for trade, general traffic, and military operations in the Record of
Tārīm basin has lain all through historical times, as it does now. Well known as this high road observa-
is, it would inevitably give me opportunities for observations of interest, both on the historical tions along
geography and the present physical and economic conditions of this northern fringe of oases, the Pei-lu.
ancient Pei-lu of the Chinese. But the rapidity with which, for the reasons above given, I was
obliged to move, would not allow of the collection of adequate data relating to the physical aspect
of the vast region traversed, beyond those which could be recorded by our surveys. On the other
hand, the important ancient remains to be found within these oases or in their immediate vicinity

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