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0589 Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1
Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1 / Page 589 (Color Image)

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ROUTE XXI.
Kúrla to Lob (Dr. Bellew).

1. Yár Kurul, 4 tash. Over sandy waste with reeds, poplars, and pools.
2. Konchí, 5 tash. On the Tárim river below junction of the united streams from
Kurla and Kúchá. Country desert waste. River banks belted with reeds
and thickets of poplar and tamarisk; full of wild pig, stags, wolves, lynxes,
and tigers.
3. Chol, 4 tash. Camp on desert of salt and reeds and pools.
4. Kará Kochún, 5 tash. Across a desert waste to the bank of Tárim river. Reed
huts of Musalmán Kirghiz and Kalmák on river bank. Here the Lob
district begins and extends eastward to the lake along the river course in
little settlements of reed huts each with its own boats.

ROUTE XXII.
Karáshahr to Yuldúz Valley (Dr. Bellew).

1. Kará Modun, 6 tash. Ruins of a former Kalmák Khan's house.
2. Khapchigháy, 5 tash. Over a mountain pass; easy for horses and camels.
3. Bálghontáy, 5 tash. Waste country, cross low ridges and streams. Pine trees
on the mountains.
4 & 5. Cross several hill ridges and camp on streams in the hollows at 5 tash each
day. Vegetation very scanty. No fuel.
6. Dálan Dawán, 5 tash. Camp on snow at top of pass. No fuel nor forage.
7 & 8. Cross "Yatmish Dawán" = "Seventy Hills" by two stages of five tash each,
and camp on snow. No fuel nor forage.
9. Yuldúz, 6 tash. Descend to Yuldúz valley. Meadows and streams, and Kalmák
camps all over the valley.
The foregoing routes have been derived from Native traders and travellers, and are
on the whole, I believe, tolerably correct, though varying in the different
ideas as to distance and number of houses, and sometimes as to the nature
of the road.

ROUTE XXIII.
From Khotan to Aksú.
Authority Captain Chapman, from Native information.

Khotan to—
1. Tarashi-gul. Through cultivation.
2. Lokul. Ditto.
3. Agroya. Desert.
4. Koshlush (or Katilich). This is the point where the Kárákásh and the
Yurúngkásh Rivers unite.
5. Tagag. Desert.
6. Mazar-tágh. Sand hills.