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0157 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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and facilitated a very pleasant acquaintance with many of
the people whom we met.

Wherever I have found the Khirghiz living unrestrictedly
under their normal nomadic conditions among the moun-
tains, whether north, west, or south of the Lop basin, they
appear to have essentially the same habits and character.
So far as I can learn, the Indo-European nomads to the
west of the Lop basin in Wakkan and Sarikol, and the
Mongol nomads of Buddhist faith to the east in northern
Tibet and eastern Tian Shan, all of whom live under physi-
cal conditions similar to those of the Turanian Khirghiz,
have very similar habits and character in spite of differences
in race and religion. This suggests that environment is in
this case more potent than either race or religion in deter-
mining habits and even character, provided, of course, that
the environment is operative long enough. In the follow-
ing chapters it will be interesting to inquire how far the
specific habits and characteristics mentioned are best ex-
plained as the product of physical environment, according to
the hypothesis of this book, and how far they are the result
of other and less easily defined causes not here considered.

The typical part of the Tian Shan plateau which I visited
in 1903 lies between Andizhan on the west, Issik Kul
(Warm Lake) on the north, and Kashgar on the south. The
main physiographic feature of this western Tian Shan
region, as of the Karakorum, is that the so-called moun-
tain system is in reality an area of low relief which has been
uplifted to a great height, forming a broad plateau. The
uplift was accompanied by warping, which has divided
the plateau into a series of basins and rolling ridges or