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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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though they are with mythical than with real geography,
yet I found that my reference to the 'Uttarakurus' (the
Ultima Thule of Indian mythology) as the land for which
I was about to set out, did not altogether satisfy their
curiosity.
Ram Singh, the Gurkha Sub-Surveyor, whose services
Colonel St. George Gore, R.E., the Surveyor-General of India,
had very kindly placed at my disposal, together with a com-
plete outfit of surveying instruments, joined me punctually on
the day of my arrival at Srinagar. He had accompanied
Captain Deasy in his recent travels near the sources of the
Yarkand River and in the Kuen-luen mountains, and the
practical acquaintance he had thus gained of the regions I was
about to visit proved useful at once in the course of my pre-
parations. With Ram Singh came Jasvant Singh, a wiry
little Kangra Rajput, who was to attend to the Sub-Surveyor as
cook and personal servant. He too had travelled in Chinese
Turkestan as one of Captain Deasy's followers.
On the 28th of May there arrived Sadak Akhun, the
Turkestan servant whom Mr. George Macartney, C.I.E., the
British representative at Kashgar, had been kind enough to
engage for me. He had left his home in the first half of
April and came just in time to start back with me. He was
to act as cook and 'Karawan-bashi' combined, and was
welcomed with no small satisfaction by honest Mirza Alim,
my Kokandi servant, whom I had engaged four months earlier
in Peshawar for the purpose of my journey. 'Mirza' had
been useful to me by giving me the needed opportunity of
practising Turki conversation, but willing as he was to pick
up the novel art of attending to the wants of a 'Sahib,' his
acquirements did not reach far in regard to the kitchen depart-
ment. His earlier career as a petty trader in Kabul and
Peshawar had not been a special preparation for these func-
tions ; and yet his straightforward ways made me anxious to
retain him. Sadak Akhun's timely arrival relieved both him
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