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Title: Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943 Archaeological Survey of India
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ic and lively son of the Hakim or governor ofDrosh, with the looks of a somewhat unkempt young Celt,whose good-natured hustling and pushing the country folkseemed always ready to receive with respect and humility.Except for his curled-up felt cap, the national head cover-ing of all Dards, he had donned clothes cut in theEuropean fashion but of Chitral homespun. Old Kurban,a regular factotum and guide for all Sahibs whom dutybrings to Chitral, still wore the wide flowing brown Chogaof the Chitral gentry and high red leather top-boots oflocal make (Fig. 17). But he had attached himself toolong to the * Sirkars interests—he had fought with SirG. Robertsons escort during the Chitral siege—not toadopt divers Indian importations in the form of Sam Brownebelt, etc. More useful for me was it that he had learnedto talk, not fluently, it is true, but intelligibly, that queerjargon, the Sahibs Hindustani. I readily attached him to myside as interpreter and fountainhead for local information.
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9- SNOW-BEDS OF AVALANCHES FROM SIDE VALLEY OFBUZAGOL, ABOVE ASH RET.

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