The
People Dwell High Up In The Mountains, And Are Savage Idolaters, Living
Only By The Chase, And Clothing Themselves In The Skins Of Beasts.
They
are in truth an evil race.[NOTE 3]
NOTE 1. - ["The length of Little Pamir, according to Trotter, is 68
miles.... To find the twelve days' ride in the plain of Marco Polo, it
must be admitted, says Severtsof (Bul. Soc. Geog. XI. 1890, pp.
588-589), that he went down a considerable distance along the south-north
course of the Aksu, in the Aktash Valley, and did not turn towards Tash
Kurgan, by the Neza Tash Pass, crossed by Gordon and Trotter. The descent
from this pass to Tash Kurgan finishes with a difficult and narrow defile,
which may well be overflowed at the great melting of snow, from the end of
May till the middle of June, even to July.
"Therefore he must have left the Aksu Valley to cross the Pass of
Tagharma, about 50 or 60 kilometres to the north of the Neza Tash Pass;
thence to Kashgar, the distance, in a straight line, is about 200
kilometres, and less than 300 by the shortest route which runs from the
Tagharma Pass to little Kara Kul, and from there down to Yangi Hissar,
along the Ghidjik. And Marco Polo assigns forty days for this route,
while he allows but thirty for the journey of 500 kilometres (at least)
from Jerm to the foot of the Tagharma Pass."
Professor Paquier (Bul.
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