Through the Unknown Pamirs: The Second Danish Pamir Expedition 1898 - 99Heinemann, 1904 - 238 páginas |
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Through the Unknown Pamirs; the Second Danish Pamir Expedition 1898-99 Ole Olufsen Vista completa - 1904 |
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Through the Unknown Pamirs; the Second Danish Pamir Expedition 1898-99 Ole Olufsen Vista completa - 1904 |
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Afghan Afghanistan Aksakal altar amongst Amu Darya Andarab Badakhshan Balkh banks Barshar Bokhara built cattle caves centimetres Central Asia Chitral clay colour corn Danish Pamir Expedition Darshai earth earthenware Emir of Bokhara flat Garm-chashma Darya glaciers Hazreti hearth-room height High Pamir Hindu Kush holy horses Ishkashim Ka'a-Ka Kafiristan Kafirs Kalai Pandsh Karategin Kasi Khiva Khorok kilometres Kirghiz kislak kiyik Kuh-i-lal lake Langarkish mazar metres metres above sea-level mountain slope Mountain Tadjiks Namatgut narrow natives old Iranian Oxus Pamir Darya Pandsh river partly pass places province Ptuk race ravine réduit river Pandsh rock roof round Second Danish Pamir Shiite Shirtar Shugnan Shund Siaposh fortress Sirgyn slate snow Somdjen southern spring stones summer terraces towers Transoxania trees tribes tributary streams Turkestan Ujfalvy Upper Pandsh valley Vakhan and Garan Vakhan Darya valleys of Pamir village whilst wind women wooden woollen Yashilkul Zunk
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Página 171 - Nordwestkatis gewesen sein, wenn wir uns vor Augen halten, daß es in Parun, das als Ausgangspunkt daneben noch in Frage käme, keine Totenbilder gab: ,,They do not bury their dead, but place the bodies in wooden coffins on the hills or mountain slopes, often even near the road beside their houses, where the putrified corpses poison the air. By the coffins of the chiefs is placed a small staff bearing a rag; and often a wooden figure, or stone, is erected by the resting-place of the dead man.
Página 44 - The gupsar is made of the entire hide of an animal, the skin of a goat or wolf being preferred. It is tanned quite smooth, the holes at the head and three of the legs are tied taut, while in the fourth leg is placed a wooden tap with a wooden stopple. Through the tap the skin is blown full by the native, who seizes the tap with his left hand, and with his left elbow presses the distended hide close up to his chest. He now throws himself into the stream, and, whilst the hide keeps him above water,...
Página 165 - ... tribes in Asia. They are not very much known, as the European explorer has been kept away from their territory, partly on account of their bloodthirstiness and partly on account of Russian and English political interests. Many wonderful reports are abroad about these people — amongst others, they are said to be descendants of the soldiers of Alexander the Great ; and their colour is said to be lighter than that of their neighbours, due to the fact, according to the Kafirs, that they had come...
Página 91 - ... remnants of meals, the bones of animals, shards, and remnants of firewood, as well as their well-kept condition, showed that they had been in use not very long ago. According to the statements of the Vakhans, they have been used by them against the Kirghiz, which is very probable. But, on the other hand, it is quite improbable that they were made by the Vakhans ; they are most likely the work of the Siaposh, who now people the province of Kafiristan, south of the Dora pass in the Hindu Kush....
Página 44 - The chief means of water transport employed by the people is, however, the gupsar — the natives are most skilful in the handling of this rickety craft, and accidents are most rare. It is the means also that the European traveller must employ when he cannot ride through the current. The word gupsar, also called by its Turkish name of sanach, is of Iranian origin, meaning " ferry" ; and the place whence the ferry starts is also called gupsar or gusar.
Página 145 - During the time of the former Shahs or Mires, caste existed, so that all offices were inherited, and the poor man, whatever his talents, was as a rule forced to remain in the same social position which his father had occupied.
Página 108 - In this pot is placed a stick with wings at the end; at the mouth of the pot the stick plays through a couple of pieces of wood in which are round holes, these pieces of wood being fastened to the pillar.
Página 25 - Pandsh valley, along the bank of the river, one would think that there was scarcely a village to be found in the region ; and it was not until one reached the slopes higher up that they came into sight — stowed away as on shelves in the mountains, one above the other along the rivers.