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English: 37. KIRGHIZ HEAD-MEN AND FOLLOWERS IN FRONT OF FELT TENT, TOILE-BULAN. DESCENT TO TURKESTAN PLAIN loi fantastically serrated and fading away in a yellow haze :the farthest edge of that great desert plain which had been drawing me back with force, and which was now soon to greet me once more. The Kashka-su Dawan was our last pass, and the route to the plains now lay open before us. Between bare and much-eroded rock spurs we followed the easy valley north-eastwards, down to where a large Kirghiz camp, near the side valley of Pokht-aghzi, offered us shelter and supplies for the nights halt. There was a good deal of grazing in the well-watered bottom of the valley, and I was not surprised at the Kirghiz * Bai, who hospitably received us, claiming fully a thousand sheep, a hundred yaks, and some dozen of ponies as his own. Butboth physique and ways of living showed a falling-off from the standards prevailing among the hardier Kirghiz of the Pamirs.