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Southern Tibet : vol.9 |
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CHAPTER I.
THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE GEZ-DARYA, 1894.
Three times I have travelled from *Fergana* to *Kashgar*. My first journey
took place in December 1890 from *Osh viâ Terek-davan*, which was crossed on
December 5th, *Irkeshtam, Ulugchat, Kanjugan, Ming-yol* and finally *Kashgar*. The
second journey began on February 23rd, 1894 from *Margelan* and proceeded across
the Pass of *Tengis-bai*, the *Alaï* valley, *Trans-Alaï*, the *Great Kara-kul, Pamirskiy
Post, Mus-tagh-ata* and *Gez-darya* to *Kashgar*. The third time I again began
from *Osh*, on July 31st, 1899 and took the road of *Gulcha, Taldik-davan, Tong-
burun* or *Taun-murun-davan* which is the water-parting between the western and
eastern *Kisl-su*, and finally the ordinary road by *Irkeshtam* to *Kashgar*.
As we, in this connection, are only concerned with such roads as have possibly
been used by Chinese travellers of older times I will not describe these three roads,
so much the less as this has already been done in my personal narratives. I will
only stop for a moment at the last part of the second road, the one of *Gez-darya*,
from which I have a few short annotations not before published.
From April 27th to May 1st or in five days I accomplished the journey from
*Bulung-kul* to *Kashgar* which is 140 km. in length, giving 28 km. a day as an
average. Unfortunately I travelled through the *Gez* valley under as unfavourable
circumstances as possible. Studying the glaciers at the west side of the *Mus-tagh-ata*,
I was attacked by a very violent iritis which made any kind of work impossible and
compelled me to hasten to *Kashgar*. Half blind and with a bandage on my eyes
I took the *Gez-darya* road which was the shortest. Of course it was impossible to
make a map of the route.
The best orographical and morphological description of this region I have seen,
is that of Dr. ARVED SCHULTZ.¹ Of his five names of places in the valley, *Gez,
Kuruk, Atschik, Jul-tugai* and *Ui-tag*, I only heard three, *viz, Gez, Kuruk* and
*Ui-tagh*. Of course there are many other names, though, by reason of my illness,
I only noted a few of them.
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