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On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1 |
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and adventurers, had left a short time before for Charkhlik
and was reported to have attacked and captured the district
magistrate of Charkhlik. The Chinese subdivisional officer
of Charchan had been helpless to prevent the outbreak. So
he considerately provided me with introductions, one to the
unfortunate Amban, assuming that somehow he had re-
gained freedom and authority, and the other to the leading
spirit of the 'revolutionaries' whom he shrewdly guessed to
have been installed by them in office.
In the course of the ten marches to Charkhlik, mainly
along the Charchan river, we did not meet with a single
wayfarer. This struck me as strange at the time. On my
arrival I found that neither of the two introductions could
be presented. When the little band of 'revolutionaries' had
captured and then cruelly put to death the hapless magis-
trate, their leader had set himself up as Amban ad interim,
while the local Muhammadans looked on with indifference.
But within a week a small detachment of Tungan troops had
arrived from far-away Kara-shahr. Stealthily introduced
into the oasis by the same adaptable local headmen, they
had surprised the 'revolutionaries' while asleep and killed
or captured all of them. This local upheaval had left no
Chinese civil authority whatever, and in its absence no
effective help could be hoped for from the easy-going Lopliks
and their indolent headmen.
I greatly chafed at the consequent delays encountered in
raising the supplies, labour and camels needed for my care-
fully planned explorations. Yet in reality the revolutionary
disturbance was to prove a boon in disguise. After my start
from Charkhlik I was obliged to devote nearly two weeks'
strenuous labours at the site of Miran to rescuing what was
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