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CHAPTEE IV.
DEPARTUKE FOR KASHGHAR—POST HOUSES—COMMANDANT OF YANGI-HISSAR FORT—
GUNS CARRIED BY ALL OFFICIALS—YANGI-HISSAR—KASHGHAR—RECEPTION BY
THE ATALIK — CITY — COTTON MANUFACTURES—EXPORT TRADE — SILK — WOOL —
CHINESE AND TUNGANIS — DOMESTIC SLAYES — SKATING — MECHANICS AND
ARTISANS.
We were entertained by tlie Dadkhwah on tlie 27tli witli a
wonderful effort of cookery in countless dislies, prepared in tke
Chinese fashion, after which we saicl good-bye to our kind host,
ancl took our departure for Kashghar the following day. We
travelled by the same roacl that Messrs. Shaw and Hayward
went by in 1868, and whicli has been fully described by them.
Pheasants and gazelles were seen on the way, but our claily
journeys were too long to allow of sport. We macle five stages
to Kashghar, of 25, 30, 32, 22, ancl 15 miles respectively, halt-
ing two days at Yangi-Hissar. The staging houses along the
road had been prepared for our reception, and we founcl in the
blue, red, and white “ posts ” comfortable accommodation, very
clifferent from what we would have had in our tents in the
severe cold then prevailing. Robat is the Turki for posthouse,
and on the Yarkand-Kashghar road, Kok, Ak, and Kizil Kobat
are met with;—the blue, white, ancl red “posts,” so called from
local peculiarities.
Khul Muhammad, Pansad-Bashi (liead of 500), Command-
ant of the Yangi-Hissar fort, met the Mission half-way from
DEPARTUKE FOR KASHGHAR—POST HOUSES—COMMANDANT OF YANGI-HISSAR FORT—
GUNS CARRIED BY ALL OFFICIALS—YANGI-HISSAR—KASHGHAR—RECEPTION BY
THE ATALIK — CITY — COTTON MANUFACTURES—EXPORT TRADE — SILK — WOOL —
CHINESE AND TUNGANIS — DOMESTIC SLAYES — SKATING — MECHANICS AND
ARTISANS.
We were entertained by tlie Dadkhwah on tlie 27tli witli a
wonderful effort of cookery in countless dislies, prepared in tke
Chinese fashion, after which we saicl good-bye to our kind host,
ancl took our departure for Kashghar the following day. We
travelled by the same roacl that Messrs. Shaw and Hayward
went by in 1868, and whicli has been fully described by them.
Pheasants and gazelles were seen on the way, but our claily
journeys were too long to allow of sport. We macle five stages
to Kashghar, of 25, 30, 32, 22, ancl 15 miles respectively, halt-
ing two days at Yangi-Hissar. The staging houses along the
road had been prepared for our reception, and we founcl in the
blue, red, and white “ posts ” comfortable accommodation, very
clifferent from what we would have had in our tents in the
severe cold then prevailing. Robat is the Turki for posthouse,
and on the Yarkand-Kashghar road, Kok, Ak, and Kizil Kobat
are met with;—the blue, white, ancl red “posts,” so called from
local peculiarities.
Khul Muhammad, Pansad-Bashi (liead of 500), Command-
ant of the Yangi-Hissar fort, met the Mission half-way from