Visits to High Tartary, Yârkand, and Kâshghar (formerly Chinese Tartary), and Return Journey Over the Karakoram PassJ. Murray, 1871 - 486 páginas |
Palavras e frases frequentes
afterwards Akhoond Andijân Argoon arrived Aryan asked Atalik-Ghâzee bashee bazâr Bokhâra brought called camp caravan Cashmeer Central Asia CHAP chief Chinese Choomâroo Dâd-khwâh dastar-khân Diwân Bakhsh Eastern Toorkistân English Englishman envoy feet fire Governor Guddee guns Hajjee hand Hayward heard Hindoo honour horses India Jemadar Jooma journey Kangra Kara-Kalpak Karakash Karakash River Kâshghar Khan Khoja Khokand Khoten King King's Kipchaks Kirghiz Ladâk laughed letter Mahammad Yakoob Mahram Mahrambashee Marco Polo merchants Mihmandâr miles Moghul Moonshee Moonshee's morning mountains Mussulman officers Oozbeks Pamir Pangong Lake Panjâbashee pass Persian plain ponies prayers present reached replied river road robe round Russians Sanjoo Sarda Sarikol says Schlagintweit sent servants Shaghâwal Shahidoolla side Sirkar sitting snow soldiers stream Tajiks talk Tartar Tashee Tibet Tibetan to-day told Toongânees Toorkee town tribes valley village wall yaks Yang-hissâr Yâr yards Yârkand Yooz Yoozbashee
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Página 8 - ... howling waste of mountains, such as one might imagine the Atlas to be, or such as Aden is; and this under an Italian sky, with an atmosphere which acts like a telescope, bringing the most minute and distant objects into notice. No gradations of verdure ; each bit of cultivation is as distinctly defined from the surrounding desert hill-side as if it had been actually cut out by measurement from another country and dropped there. Approaching the village, you pass a long, low, broad wall, covered...
Página 3 - Black tents of peculiar make appear for a few days at a time in the winter on open spaces by the roadsides, and shelter dingy families of narrow-eyed Tibetans — petty traders, who come down with their wares. They are not prepossessing in appearance, with their high cheek-bones, their dirt, and their long pig-tails. But they are the most good-tempered of mortals, and they always greet you with a grin. Moreover, every year the few English sportsmen who penetrate into the wilder parts of Ladak bring...