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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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Turdi Kol and all the Kirghiz implored me, as the repre-
sentative of the British Government, to make some arrange-
ments for stopping these cruel raids. They said the Chinese
would do nothing for them, and their only hope now was
in the British. I was able to tell them that the Government
of India was sending Captain (now Colonel) Durand to Hunza
to see the chief of that country, and, amongst other things,
to try to come to some understanding with him in regard to
this raiding, and that for the protection of the trade route
during the present year I was going to leave some Kashmir
sepoys at Shahidula. But I also desired to explore the route
from Shahidula by which the raids were committed, and
I would ask, therefore, that guides should be furnished me
to enable me to effect this. Turdi Kol himself at once
volunteered to accompany me, and as he had been to Hunza
before, and knew the road, his assistance was likely to prove
most valuable.
These Khirghiz were not an attractive set of men. They
were timid, irresolute, and shifty. It is true that their mode
of life renders them rather liable to attack, for they live by
their flocks and herds, and have to scatter themselves over
the valleys wherever pasture for their animals can be found.
They are, therefore, necessarily exposed to attacks from a
compact body of raiders. But, on the other hand, these raiders
had to come nearly two hundred miles through a difficult
mountainous country; and the Kirghiz, if they were worth
anything at all, ought to have been able, in the defiles and
passes of their country, to give the Kanjutis some sort of
punishment, or to effect some little retaliation that might at
any rate have checked the audacity of the raiders. But except
Turdi Kol, who really had some pluck and nerve, they were
a flabby lot, who, like parasites, preferred to hang on to some
greater power and get protection from it rather than make
any attempt at defence themselves. There were at the time
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