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0087 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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side over a succession of difficult snowy passes. But the route
that appealed to me perhaps most by its varied geographical
and ethnographic interest as well as by its historical associa-
tions, was the one followed in 1906 at the start of my second
expedition. So I may choose this route as the one on which
to conduct the reader to the scenes of my Central-Asian
explorations.
This route, ordinarily closed to the European traveller
from political considerations, was to take me from the
Peshawar district, at the north-western extremity of the
Indian administrative border, through the tribal areas of
Swat and Dir into the Dard territory of Chitral. Thence
the uppermost Oxus valley and the Afghan Pamirs could
be gained across the Baroghil saddle. My lamented late
chief, Colonel Sir Harold Deane, then Chief Commissioner
of the North-West Frontier Province, had readily agreed to
my project, while an auspicious political constellation had
caused the late Amir Habibullah, King of Afghanistan,
to grant me permission to cross a portion of his territory,
otherwise jealously guarded, with a promptness I had not
ventured to hope for.
The end of April, the earliest time for a start northward
across the snowy passes, saw my small party duly mobilized.
As on all my three expeditions, it included only Indian
assistants. The Survey of India Department, from first to
last ever ready to help me with my topographical tasks,
had once more deputed with me one of its excellent native
surveyors, Rai Ram Singh, who had accompanied me on
my first journey. Then there was Naik Ram Singh, a
corporal of K.G.O. First Bengal Sappers and Miners, who,
thanks to sound technical training in his corps, was to prove