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0156 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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CHAPTER V

KHIRGHIZ NOMADS AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE
HIGH PLATEAUS

THE great physical difference between the plateaus and
the floor of the Lop basin has notable consequences in the
diverse human habits and character of the two regions.
Apparently, the physical differences are the cause of the
human differences. In order to take the first step in bring-
ing out this geographic contrast between the human inhab-
itants of the two diverse regions, I shall postpone the ac-
count of our journey from the Sanju pass down to the zone
of vegetation, and shall devote this chapter to a description
of the Khirghiz, a race of Mohammedan nomads inhabit-
ing the high plateaus. As the Karakorum plateau is for the
most part too high and cold to be inhabited, we saw but a
few score Khirghiz on the way from India to Turkestan. In
the summer of 1903, however, as a member of the Pum-
pelly Expedition of the Carnegie Institution, I spent three
months among the Khirghiz of the plateaus to the west and
southwest of the Lop basin, chiefly in the western and
central part of the Tian Shan plateau. During a residence
in Turkey I had learned a little Turkish; and now I found
that I was soon able to pick up enough of the Khirghiz
dialect of Turki, a language very closely allied to Turkish,
to dispense with an interpreter in all ordinary matters. A
little knowledge of their language went far to put me on
terms of comparative intimacy with my Khirghiz servants,