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0339 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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south of Tikkenlik on the Konche River. Accordingly, a
large fort was built there, and in 1893 the amban of Jan Kul
was removed to Dural, which in turn "became a town."
For three years the "boom" continued, but by 1897 the soil
had become so saline and the crops so poor that the colonists
began to move away. In 1898, to offset this loss, over two
thousand rebellious Dungans were induced, or forced, to
come from Shi-Ning, eight hundred miles to the east, and
settle at Dural. The water was so saline, however, and new
land so quickly became unproductive, that in 1900 they mi-
grated ninety miles northwest, to Kara-Kum, another site
which had just been opened on the Konche. Thereupon, in
1901, the amban was removed to Kara-Kum, and in 1904
the last and poorest of the people of Dural abandoned it and
came to Tikkenlik. Kara-Kum became even larger than its
predecessors, and from 1901 to 1903 is said to have had a
population of five thousand. Nevertheless, the salt proved as
bad there as elsewhere, and in 1904 it, too, was abandoned,
though the amban and forty or fifty people still remained
at the beginning of 1906. Jan Kul, Dural, Kara-Kum, and
Tikkenlik represent four abortive attempts during sixteen
years to utilize the water of the lower Tarim and Konche
rivers. The attempts are especially significant because they
failed at a time when the rivers of Turkestan were unusually
high, about 1900, as well as when the rivers were low, about
1893. Tikkenlik, being but four or five years old, still sur-
vived in 1906, but it was deteriorating. Its five hundred
people were either moving away, or else betaking them-
selves to sheep-raising or fishing, the means of livelihood
of the former hamlet before the attempt to establish a town.