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0221 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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must have been inhabited a long time, for the people keep
a donkey-road in repair for the sake of carrying away the
soil enriched during the abode of man. The marked sim-
ilarity of location and plan between Choka and Karaki
suggests that they were contemporary. If this is so, the
probability that the population was formerly more dense
in this region is increased.

Before finally leaving the mountains, I made a détour
eastward to Imamla, a terrace village, and Polu in the pas-
ture zone, returning again to Choka. Imamla is the seat of
a famous shrine, and I was anxious to visit it because I had
heard that the sheikhs had a "tezgireh," or chronicle, relat-
ing the history of Choka. I went to the house of the chief
sheikh, a most unpriestly young man, with a merry boyish
air and two or three wives. As befitted so religious a house,
the call to prayer or some one of the five daily prayers
seemed to be in progress most of the time. Even the beg-
gars attached to the shrine would pray for five minutes if
one gave them a penny. Whenever one of the other five
sheikhs came to call, he said, "Salaam," and at once opened
his hands in prayer; and of course there were long prayers
at meals. One might have thought himself in a monastery,
if women had not passed through the courtyard now and
again.

The chronicle, which was owned by the sheikh, is said
to have been written by one of the scribes of Yusup Khadir
Khan Khazi, king of Kashgar in 1000 A. D., at the time of
the death of the Four "Imams," or "Saints," from whom the
shrine takes its name. The Imams, so the chronicle says,
came with the other Mohammedan invaders to convert