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Innermost Asia - Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia Kan-Su and Eastern Īrān Carried Out and Described Under the Orders of H.M. Indian Government Text

1927

When discussing above the topographical notices furnished by the Later Han Annals and the Wei ho of the territories along the northern slopes of the Tien-shan I called attention to the definite indication furnished by the latter text as regards Eastern Chu-mi _R M. It is mentioned as the first and easternmost of the territories reached north of the range by the ' new route of the north ' after em [...] From the circumstance that the description in the Later Han Annals mentions only Eastern Chu-mi and not Western Chu-mi which the Wei/io's list names as lying next to the west Hsi' Sung the commentator of the Hou Han shu concludes that the latter territory was at the time of the Later Han dynasty absorbed by Eastern Chu-mi.6 In support of this assumption it may be pointed out that the notice in [...] The rapidly proceeding development of the agricultural resources offered by the mountain slopes was evidently leading already to a restriction of the available pastures ; for the fifteen hundred odd ' tents ' of Kazaks that had moved from the north to the Guchen tract were reported to be finding the allotted grazing lands inadequate to the needs of their herds and flocks and to be eager to return [...] At the same time Guchen is assured easy access through Urumchi the present capital of the New Dominion to the great fertile valley of Ili in the west and also via the Turfan depression to the high road connecting the chief oases of the Tarim basin. [...] The presence of parties of Mongols at the Ya-mens of Guchen 'showed that the declaration of ' Independent Mongolia' had by no means interrupted the relations of old standing which geography has established between the nomadic populations of the Altai and the oases on both sides of the Tien-shan.
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Frontmatter
i-vii Aurel Stein view
Chapter XVI to Guchen and Across the Tien-Shan
549-565 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XVII the Turfān Territory: Some Aspects of Its Geography and History
566-586 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XVIII at Ruined Sites of Turfān
587-641 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XIX the Ancient Cemetries of Astāna
642-718 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XX Explorations in the Kuruk-Tāgh
719-748 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XXI on the Ancient Route Along the Konche-Daryā
749-785 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XXII from Korla to Kuchā
786-802 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XXIII Kuchā and Some of Its Ancient Sites
803-829 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XXIV form Kuchā to Kāshgar
830-841 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XXV Across the Pāmīrs
842-862 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XXVI in the Region of the Upper Oxus
863-895 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XXVII by the Eastern Marches of Khorāsān
896-905 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XXVIII the Sacred hill of Sīstān
906-925 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XXIX Ruined Sites Within the Oasis of Persian Sīstān
926-942 Aurel Stein view
Chpater XXX in the Desert Delta of Sīstān
943-981 Aurel Stein view

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