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0397 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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developed social organisation. That their ultimate
effect would be to weaken the organisation as a
military force has already been pointed out. It is
not probable, therefore, that the hardy shepherds
from Mongolia paid much of their blood for the
conquest of the rich oases.
In speaking of the expulsion of these earliest
dwellers I have used a term frequently found in
that connection, but in strictness it should be called
merely a conquest. The attack of the Yue-che
was not that of a ravaging army led by a Jenghiz
Khan or a Tamerlane, having his seat of power
already fixed, and now merely hungry for dominion.
It seems to have been the effort of a displaced peo-
ple to find new homes. They were unaccustomed
to fixed agriculture with all the niceties of a tangled
irrigation works: wholesale slaughter or expulsion
would then have left them without toilers for the
ditches and the fields, whose fruits they might take
as landlords. That a considerable number of the
conquered should leave is not unlikely—in particu-
lar the pride-hurt chiefs and their closer following.
The traditions of West Turkestan, indeed, bear wit-
ness to such a movement; the earlier settlers there
were disturbed by this secondary wave—the dispos-
sessed becoming thus the dispossessors. But the
body of the people probably remained. To what
race they belonged is not known, and because of the
darkness, many students have boldly stumbled for-
ward with theories equally lacking in proof or dis-
proof. Such speculation was rife even before the
recent extended discoveries and studies of Sven
Hedin and Dr. Stein. While the latter has not, so