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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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On the following day we reached the Yar-
kand River at Chiraghsaldi camping-ground—
the farthest point reached by Hayward on his
march down the river nearly twenty years
before. The river was at this time of the
year fordable, and ran over a level pebbly bed,
the width of the valley at the bottom being
three or four hundred yards. All along the
bottom were patches of jungle, and here and
there stretches of grass ; but the mountain-sides
were quite bare.
Proceeding down the Yarkand River, now
through absolutely unknown country, we reached
the next day the ruins of half a dozen huts and
a smelting furnace, on a plain called Karash-
tarim. There were also signs of furrows, as of
land formerly cultivated, and it is well known
that up to a comparatively recent period, cer-
tainly within eighty years ago, this valley of
the Yarkand River was inhabited, and spots
like this, which included about a hundred and
fifty acres of arable land, were cultivated. The
district is known as Raskam, which, I was told,
is a corruption of Rást-kán (a true mine), a
name which was probably given it on account
of the existence of mineral deposits there.
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