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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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They had also met Captain Grombtchevsky, and had been
as much struck as I was with his genial manner, though they
had warned him of the difficulties he would be likely to meet
in gaining permission to enter Ladak, accompanied as he was
with an escort of Cossacks.
The winter had now fairly set in, and as two passes on the
main range had still to be explored, it was necessary for me
to return quickly to my party. I accordingly had to leave
Major Cumberland again on October 30, and retrace my
steps down the Tagh-dum-bash Pamir.
The Sarikolis seemed very friendly disposed, and as I was
passing through Tisnaf, a small walled village a mile or two
north of Tashkurgan, the headman met me and pressed me
to come in to breakfast, a request which I was very glad to
accept. He took me to a small house, and brought me bread
and tea, which he ate with me.
I was told that this year many fugitives from Shignan had
been driven here by the Afghans, but most of them had been
sent back by the Chinese, after they had received an assurance
from the governor of Shignan that no harm should be done
to them.
Tashkurgan and its neighbourhood was visited by Colonel
Gordon, with some members of Forsyth's Yarkand Mission,
in 1874, on their way to Wakhan and the Great and Little
Pamirs, and there is nothing which I need add to the descrip-
tion of it which will be found in the report of the Mission.
The Tagh-dum-bash Pamir, of which Tashkurgan may be
said to be the northernmost limit, had not been visited by
Colonel Gordon's party, and a short description of it may
therefore be interesting.
The Pamir may be said to commence, one branch at the
Khunjerab Pass, and another at the Wakhujrui Pass, and to
extend northwards to Tashkurgan, where the district of Sarikol
begins. The Pamir is inhabited chiefly by Kirghiz, but there
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