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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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to ensure that all stores and equipment required for travels
likely to spread over eight months, and under widely vary-
ing conditions of ground and climate, should be kept within
easy reach. I found that, including riding animals, eight
camels and twelve ponies would be needed for my caravan.
The season was not favourable for the purchase of camels,
for most of the caravan animals were away engaged on the
brisk summer traffic towards the Russian trade-centres of
Andijan and Almati. But after lengthy trials and negotia-
tions, in the course of which the local experience and help of
Munshi Bahadur Shah and other members of Mr. Macartney's
establishment proved of great advantage, the necessary com-
plement of transport and riding animals was gradually secured.
The trouble taken about their selection was, as subsequent
experience showed, fully rewarded by the result. For not-
withstanding the fatigues and hardships implied by travels
which covered an aggregate of more than 3,000 miles, none of
the animals I brought from Kashgar ever broke down. The
average price paid for the camels amounted to 624 Tangas
per animal, representing approximately Rs. 91, at the then
current rate of exchange. The cost of the ponies varied con-
siderably, an average of 260 Tangas, or 38 rupees, being paid
for each of a serviceable lot of baggage animals.
In regard to the personnel, too, of my caravan it was
necessary to exercise careful selection, in order to keep the
number of followers down to the minimum indicated by con-
siderations for economy and for facility of supply arrangements.
For Mirza Alim, my personal servant from Peshawar, who had
proved not quite equal to the fatigues of rough and rapid
marching in the mountains, I found a very useful substitute
in Muhammad-Ju, a hardy 'Kirakash' of half Yarkandi,
half Kashmiri extraction, who from long trading experience on
the Karakorum route had acquired much useful knowledge
about ponies. Having served Captain Deasy on his return
journey to India, he had also learned the indispensable rudi-
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