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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1 |
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people from Dumuka, who cultivated fields in both places.
In 1900, the population amounted to twenty-five families;
but since then the supply of water has again decreased, part
of the people have gone back to their old homes, and the
cultivated area has diminished from three thousand to
fourteen hundred "mulaks."
In answer to my further inquiries as to the history of the
region, Ismail Beg sent for a "tezgireh" like that of Imamla,
a dull, but apparently accurate contemporary chronicle of
the Mohammedan invasion. It is written in the Turki lan-
guage in monotonous couplets, of which the following is a
sample, with a translation in the same metre:—
"Láchinàta yúrdilér,
Kéya [Keriya] déyasi géldilér."
"Láchinata conquered, they
Kéya-ward pursue their way."
The chronicle describes how, in the tenth century, the
Moslem invaders advanced along the line of oases from
Kashgar through Yarkand and Khotan to Keriya. They
killed some of the Buddhist "Kafirs," or "infidels," con-
verted others, and caused the rest to flee north across the
desert. Chira is described at length with reference to local
sites well known to-day, so that we may assume it to have
been much the same as at present. Having conquered Chira,
the invaders sacked Lachinata and Ulugh Mazar, or Terkhi
Turkhan and Kenan, as they are also called. Of the inhab-
itants of Kenan, which is said to have been a city with
a gate of gold, two hundred and forty-one adult men were
killed, and five or six hundred became Mohammedans. If
Lachinata were equally large, as appears from the ruins, the
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