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0046 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2
トルキスタンの調査 1904年 : vol.2
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[Photo] 443 狩猟用のワシを連れたカラテギンのガルチャ・ベグA Galcha Beg of Karategin with his Hunting Eagle.

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doi: 10.20676/00000178
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The Kizil Su valley of Karategin is, in a general way, 25 miles wide and over
a mile deep, as measured from the lower passes of its border ranges—a valley on
the large scale characteristic of the highlands of Asia. Flanking it on the north
is a branch of the Alai, on the south the Peter-the-Great Range, whose giant
ice-clad peaks stand 10,000 feet above the oases scattered along the terraces and
grade plains of its ancient valley-floors. The southwestern half lies open to a
scanty precipitation of moisture from storms born up the Oxus embayment to
nourish a moderate pasture over the grade-plains and flanking mountains below
their snow. And there even grain is raised in fields patching the high slopes,
with no irrigation; but the eastern half of the valley is barren of vegetation, a
desolate land of sharp red and gray or black declivities rising from the dazzling
gravel-plain of its "braided" stream. There the higher peaks of the Peter-the-
Great Range are less often seen mantled with clouds than as naked pyramids
of white outlined against an arid blue. Karategin is essentially desert.