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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1 |
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culty from the excessive amount of sediment would vanish.
Though the absolute quantity of sediment might conceiv-
ably be greater than now, it would be diluted with a far
larger amount of water, and spread over a much larger area.
The hard cake would be reduced from two or three inches
to perhaps a quarter of an inch, not enough to interfere with
cultivation. Miran, even more than the other ruins, seems
to verify the hypothesis of a change of climate during historic
times.
After staying at Miran two days, we turned to the north,
and a day's journey brought us to Abdal, on the bank of
the Tarim River, near Przhevalski's Lop-Nor, or the lake
of Kara Koshun, as Hedin prefers to call it. This hamlet
is occupied by Lopliks, a clear-skinned, dark-haired people,
probably Chantos with a large admixture of Mongol or
Tibetan blood. They talk a Turki dialect but little different
from that of the Chantos, like whom they dress. They have
the same gentle, hospitable ways as the rest of the people of
the Lop basin, but seemed to me more independent and self-
respecting. I was amazed at the way in which some of them
drew maps of roads, lakes, and rivers in the sand, represent-
ing the proportions and directions correctly to a degree rare
among uncivilized people. Perhaps their ability comes from
the necessity of keeping in mind the exact length and direc-
tion of the multitudinous and intricate canals and little lakes
of the reedy swamp of Kara Koshun. They make their liv-
ing as fishermen, paddling their dug-out canoes of poplar
from pond to pond through narrow lanes bordered by reeds.
Till eighty years ago, or less, when Charklik was founded,
or better refounded, none of the Lopliks practiced agricul-
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