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0519 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1 / Page 519 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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[Photo] 134. VIEW TO S. E. ACROSS EASTERN END OF LAKE VICTORIA, GREAT PAMIR.
[Photo] 135 BARRAGE THROWN ACROSS BARTANG VALLEY BY EARTHQUAKE, WITH WESTERN END OF NEWLY FORMED SAREZ LAKE. Clouds of dust raised by rock movement are seen on higher slopes.

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ok. On his way home among many difi
he regained Kashgar once more fir
in time before the final collapse of
r passage through the Tarim basi
ly nine centuries later the Chinese lo
heir power over Eastern Turkestan it
amir that a Manchu force overtook t
f Kashgar and his retainers on their fl
Badakhshan and defeated them wit
r would Stime-tash, the point whe
lained in 1759, have become again in t
ilded had its position at the eastern
now marked it out to the Chinese as
as a suitable place for watching the m
ughnan as it leads along the northe

of Stimo-tash, which we reached at t
h along the winding lake, there rise a
sheltered a mist with the Chinese insc
ng that victory of 1759. The inscripti
to the Tashkend Museum, after Ca
acks, on June 22, 1892, had wiped ou
detachment which held out to the las
But the massive granite base of the di
children of that Chinese power which d
nusual years had made itself felt aga
yond Mount Imaus.
up the wide grassy trough of the A
so to Bash-gumbaz-aghi, the chief
Kirghiz grazing on this Pamir. The
led for anthropometrical work and m