Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873, Under Command of Sir T. D. Forsyth: With Historical and Geographical Information Regarding the Possessions of the Ameer of Yarkund |
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Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873, Under Command of Sir T. D. Forsyth ... Thomas Douglas Forsyth No preview available - 2017 |
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9 A.M. Noon Abábakar Aksú Alím Culí Almati Amír amongst Andiján army Artysh Badakhshan bank bazar Bukhárá called Camp capital Changíz chief Chinese corrected for index crossed cultivation desert district Ditto Ditto east feet Governor grass height hills Hissár horses houses Hydar Islám journey Kalmák Kapchák Kará Kárákásh Karakash River Karakorum Karghalik Káshghar Khán Khitáy Khoja Khokand Khudáyár Khujand Khutan Kila Kirghiz Kizil Kúchá Kúl Ladakh lake Langar latitude miles Mír Moghol Mogholistán mountains Muhammad Musalmán observations Oxus Pámír Panjah Pass plain range ridge river road route Russian Sáíd Samarcand sand Sárígh Sarikol sent Serai settlements Sextant Shighnan side snow stream Sultán Syad tangas tash Táshkand Theodolite Thermometer town trade tribes Turfán Turkestan Tymúr Ursa Minoris Polaris valley village Wakhán Wakhi whilst winter Yákúb Beg Yangi Yárkand Yarkand river Yúnus دو
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Page 21 - But there is a marvellous thing related of this desert, which is that when travellers are on the move by night, and one of them chances to lag behind or to fall asleep or the like, when he tries to gain his company again he will hear spirits talking, and will suppose them to be his comrades. Sometimes the spirits will call him by name ; and thus shall a traveller ofttimes be led astray so that he never finds his party. And in this way many have perished.
Page 21 - Sometimes the spirits will call him by name; and thus shall a traveller ofttimes be led astray, so that he never finds his party. And in this way many have perished. Sometimes the stray travellers will hear as it were the tramp and hum of a great cavalcade of people away from the real line of...
Page 31 - ... black hole under the mountain, and had only time to lie down in the bottom of his boat when it was drawn into the dark passage. The top of the boat scraped the roof of the channel, and bits of stone continually fell upon him. After a long time he emerged, and found the bottom of his boat covered with nuggets of gold.
Page 467 - Toyan valley. The pieces of gneiss belong to a group of metamorphic rock which is usually called Protogine. It is mainly composed of quartz and white or reddish orthoclase, with a comparatively small proportion of a green chloritic substance. The white felspar variety generally contains as an accessory mineral schorl, in short, rather thick, crystals. I shall subsequently allude to the probable source from which the protogine pebbles might have been derived.
Page 464 - ... saturated with it, the explanation that the Loss is a subaerial deposit, is almost involuntarily pressed upon one's mind. I do not think that by this I am advancing a new idea ; for, — unless I am very much mistaken, — it was my friend Baron Richthofen who came to a similar conclusion during his recent sojourn in Southern China. Yarkand lies about five miles from the river, far away from the hills, in the midst of a well cultivated land, intersected by numerous canals of irrigation ; a land...
Page 21 - Even in the daytime one hears those spirits talking. And sometimes you shall hear the sound of a variety of musical instruments, and still more commonly the sound of drums.
Page 470 - Volcan's reign became exhausted and tranquillity was restored, the whole country south of the axis of the Thian Shan must have greatly subsided, and the wider the valleys have been the more effectively was the extent of subsidence felt. To support this idea by an observation, I may notice that north of Chungterek, at the base of the Koktan range, the Artush beds have entirely disappeared in the depth, and the gravel beds overlaying them dip partially under the Trias limestone, a state of things which...
Page 36 - Kais, with his six Muhtasib, armed with the dira to flog people off to prayer, and drive the women out of the streets, and nobody was bastinadoed for drinking spirits and eating forbidden meats. There were mimics and acrobats, and fortune-tellers and story-tellers, who moved about amongst the crowd and diverted the people.
Page 9 - Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
Page 11 - Her government is a powerful and a beneficent one. Her friendship is to be desired, as it always proves a source of advantage to those who possess it. The Queen is as the sun, in whose genial rays such poor people as I flourish. I particularly desire the friendship of the English. It is essential to me. Your rule is just. The road is open to every one, and from here to London any one can come and go with perfect freedom.