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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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long rows of booths and shops were already thronged with villagers.
But a sight more curious to me was the long stream of petty
traders whom we passed along the country tracks leading from
Kara-kash to Bizin. The weekly market of Kara-kash had been
held on the preceding day, and the same traders who had then
exhibited their wares there were now hurrying on to Bizin.
Badruddin Khan, who usually himself shares these migrations,
explained to me the system by which the week-days are divided
between the seven main Bazars of the oasis. The "Old" and
"New" towns of Khotan, Yurung-kash, Sampula, Imam Musa
Kasim, Bizin, and Kara-kash have each a weekly market-day, and
as the distances are not great and the succession of the several local
markets is conveniently arranged, the traders make it a point to
attend all these markets in turn. Ponies carry the bales containing
the migratory "shops," and, balanced on the top of the loads,
their owners and assistants. Thus that morning the greater
part of the petty trading community of Khotan passed me as it
were on review. Badruddin Khan knew them all well, goods,
ponies and men, and had much to tell of their financial fortunes and
personal characters.
I was surprised at the number of foreigners whom we met among
these hurrying traders. There were Kabulis and Bajauris, men
from Pishin in Baluchistan, and plenty of Andijanis. A few
Kashmiris, too, I saw in the straggling procession, but the greeting
I addressed to them in familiar 'Kashür kath' (Kashmiri) met with
no response. They were the sons of emigrants settled in Yarkand,
and had forgotten their fathers' tongue. Among the Afghans, too, it
is rare that the children know anything of Persian or Pushtu.
Once more I had occasion to reflect on the great power of assimila-
tion exercised by the Turki-speaking population throughout
Turkestan. It quickly absorbs races which on Indian soil would
retain their well-marked individuality and difference of speech for
generations. Whatever the causes may be, this rapid amalgamation
at centres like Yarkand and Khotan always presents itself to me as
an apt illustration of the historical process by which Turki tribes
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