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On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1 |
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Fifteen years later I learned with regret on the Taghdum-
bash Pamir how rough Bolshevik treatment had deprived
Kökan Beg of almost all his possessions and driven him for
refuge into Chinese territory, where he afterwards died.
From that capable headman I first learned of the great
lake which after a mighty earthquake four years before had
formed in the Murghab river valley. Covering what had
previously been the Sarez Pamir, this new lake was declared
completely to block the route by which I had intended to
reach the Alichur Pamir across the Marjanai pass. I did not
care to turn to the well-known route past the Russian
station known as the Pamirski Post, but decided to move
down to Saunab, the last village at the head of the Roshan
valley. I hoped for a chance of being thence able to make
my way up the Murghab and to find a passage past the
great barrage which had created the new lake. Kökan Beg
did not believe that with our baggage we could possibly
get round it. But then I knew that for Kirghiz, who never
will walk if they can possibly help it, a passage would mean
one practicable for animals.
A day's halt at Kara-chim was utilized for collecting an-
thropological measurements from the Kirghiz there en-
camped, good specimens of that hardy Turkish tribe (Fig.
130) which in scanty numbers braves the rigours of the
Pamir climate with icy blasts in the winter. Then we passed
back again towards the Tanimaz river. As we crossed to its
right bank some distance below the point where its main
feeder from a great glacier of the Muz-tagh massif turns
south, we soon found the valley floor completely smothered
under enormous masses of rock debris. The same cataclysm
which blocked the Murghab valley had thrown them down
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