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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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was dashing along at a furious rate over huge rocks and
boulders, and was quite impassable for the ponies, so we were
compelled to halt for the night; and the next morning,
selecting a place where the river-bottom was least rugged, we
crossed the river on camels, halting a few miles on the other
side of the gorge at a pleasant little camping-ground called
Karul, at the junction of the Surakwat stream. Here there
was plenty of thick green grass and shrubs quite twenty feet
high; so we remained the following day also, that the ponies
might have a good feed of grass such as they were not likely
to see for a long time to come.
Turdi Kol took me a few miles lower down the river and
showed me two other equally good camping-grounds, and he
says that there is considerably more pasture in the lower part
of this valley than in that of the Karakash River, where Shahi-
dula is situated, and that in the old days the valley was popu-
lated and cultivated, and merchants went to and fro by the
Mustagh Pass to Baltistan. Kanjuti raids, however, put a stop
to this, and a story is told of a great raid which took place
at this gorge. The Kanjutis lay hid on the cliffs overhanging
the river, and as a man called Khoja Mohammed was passing
through with his family and a large party, they fired down on
them, and afterwards attacked them with the sword, killing all
the men, and taking the women and children captive. Since
that time this gorge has always been known by the name of
Khoja Mohammed.
We now had to leave the valley of the Yarkand River and
cross the Aghil Range into the valley of the Oprang River. I
took the camels on, one day's march further, to the foot of the
Aghil Pass, and then sent them back to Shahidula to bring on
the second instalment of supplies, which I had arranged that
Turdi Kol should bring to meet me at Chong Jangal, near the
junction of the Oprang with the Yarkand River, after the
exploration of the Saltoro and Shimshal Passes. The ascent
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