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0044 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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tinuous agricultural population, such as that of the Mis-
sissippi Valley, dependent on rain for its water supply.
Two main types of civilization prevail: the condition of
nomadism with its independent mode of life, due to the scat-
tered state of the sparse population, and the condition of
intensive agriculture in irrigated oases with its centralized
mode of life, due to the crowding together of population
in communities whose size is directly proportional to that
of the streams. Because of the arid climate and the conse-
quent physical characteristics of Central Asia, its types of
civilization have been, are, and probably must continue
to be fundamentally different from those of well-watered
regions such as most of America and Europe.

My acquaintance with Central Asia began in 1903, when
I was appointed by the Carnegie Institution of Washington
to assist Professor William M. Davis of Harvard Univer-
sity in the physiographic work of an expedition to Rus-
sian Turkestan, under the lead of Mr. Raphael Pumpelly.
I remained in Central Asia from May, 1903, to July, 1904,
spending most of the time in Russian Turkestan. I crossed
into Chinese Turkestan for a month, however, the first
summer, and spent four months in eastern Persia during
the winter. The results of the expedition are recorded in
"Explorations in Turkestan," a volume published by the
Carnegie Institution. The following year I had the good
fortune to be invited by Mr. Robert L. Barrett to accom-
pany him on an expedition to Chinese Turkestan. Arriving
in India in February, 1905, we proceeded north to the Vale
of Kashmir among the Himalayas, crossed them in May,
and reached Chinese Turkestan in June. There we worked