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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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out to us. 'T was lust for gold that inspired the
first limping effort of the natives to scale the rough
valley of the tumbling stream above Polu. Guided
in part by the dead bodies of their predecessors, in
part by the dizzy, man-made trail, the patient don-
keys strive up and down the gorge, laden, down-
ward, with the placer ''concentrates,'' upward with
bread and tea for the score or more of Turkestani
toilers who do the bidding of their Chinese masters.
One group of gnome-like miners appealed to us,
through Achbar, lamenting their enforced stay away
from the village, and praying the sahibs to intervene
with the Kitai (Chinese) in their behalf. But the
men did not seem hungry or overworked, and we
left them, absorbed as we were in trouble of our
own. Their methods, compared with placer work
which I had chanced to see in Mexico, California,
and Alaska, appeared very crude. The number of
worked-out pockets, multiplied by their evidently
small rate of daily progress, attested long usage.
The village entrepôt showed no sign of garnered
wealth from the operations, which must be a strict
government monopoly, let out, perhaps, on some
royalty basis to the Amban, one hundred and twenty
miles away in Khotan.
Looking back now upon the troubles which befell
us after our departure from Polu, and which seemed
to be born of treachery, I am reminded of sim-
ilar troubles occurring when I chanced to stumble
into a gold-bearing territory far in the interior of
Abyssinia. As in the present case, I knew nothing
of the gold until close upon it. But the local digni-
tary, a handsome, courtly Ras—or duke—fairly
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