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0444 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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interesting to me to observe a curious if faint reflex of those
great tribal movements in the numerous camps of Mu-
hammadan Kazaks, fine men of Turki speech and Kirghiz
race, whom the Mongols had driven south under Chinese
protection after they had secured the 'independence' (under
Russian auspices) of Outer Mongolia. It was instructive, too,
to note the studious care taken by the Chinese authorities
to restrict as far as possible the movements of these nomadic
guests and thus to guard against the risk of great currents
of migration being started.

Winter had already begun to set in when we reached the
town of Barkul, and the shelter of its oldest temple (Fig. 116),
where we found quarters close to an important epigraphic
record of Han times, was very welcome after the icy blasts
we had encountered since the Pei-shan. Then after passing
through Guchen, a centre of caravan trade towards China
and Mongolia, I visited and surveyed near Jimasa the re-
mains, extensive but badly decayed, which mark the site
of the ancient capital of this territory. Under the names
of Chin-man and Pei-ting it often figures in the history of
Chinese domination in Central Asia. The economic and
political connexion of this part of Dzungaria with the im-
portant oases of the Turfan basin to the south had been a
very close one from an early historical period.

Turfan was to be the field for my winter's labours, and
I was glad to reach it by the most direct route, hitherto
unsurveyed. It led me across a rugged portion of the Tien-
shan range rising to numerous snowy peaks by a pass close
on 12,000 feet. The journey confirmed once more the accu-
racy of the early Chinese itineraries in which this route is
described. At the same time it brought home in a striking