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Mosttravellers from India came through Yarkand on their way to Kashgar: the route from theKhunjerab and Mintaka passes went east from Beijing China ToursTashkurgan rather than north, and the moredirect route from Leh, now blocked due to disputes over the border, was more popular.
Theroad directly from Tashkurgan is also closed to foreigners, and there is no public transport.
Yarkand had a sizeable population of Hindu money-lenders, whose uneasy relationship withtheir clients was complicated by the fact that most of Mt Everestthese were Muslims. Since the Hinduswere British citizens they were responsible to the consul in Kashgar or his agents rather thanto anyBeijing Airport Car Rental Chinese amban (magistrate), and when religious rioting broke out in Yarkand in 1907 itwas the British consul Macartney who had to defuse the situation and punish them.
Many of the people in the area were Andijanis (from modern-day Kyrgyzstan andUzbekistan). Macartney's Russian opposite number, Petrovsky, China Tour Guideclaimed that since their hometerritories had been annexed by Russia earlier in the century, they were Russians and offeredRussian nationality and passports to all who would take them, in the hope that Chineseharassment of these new citizens would give him theForbidden City China excuse to bring Cossacks to Kashgarand beyond to 'protect' them.
This was not in fact managed until the time of his successor,Sokov, around 1912.
Marco Polo, explorer Sven Hedin, and Sir Percy and Ella Sykes (who covered for Macartneywhile he was in England in 1915) all commented on the prevalence of The Great Wall of Chinagoitre amongstYarkand's Turki population, putting the cause down to bad water. The Chinese were thoughtto escape the disease because they boiled all their drinking water, although goitre is caused by
Theroad directly from Tashkurgan is also closed to foreigners, and there is no public transport.
Yarkand had a sizeable population of Hindu money-lenders, whose uneasy relationship withtheir clients was complicated by the fact that most of Mt Everestthese were Muslims. Since the Hinduswere British citizens they were responsible to the consul in Kashgar or his agents rather thanto anyBeijing Airport Car Rental Chinese amban (magistrate), and when religious rioting broke out in Yarkand in 1907 itwas the British consul Macartney who had to defuse the situation and punish them.
Many of the people in the area were Andijanis (from modern-day Kyrgyzstan andUzbekistan). Macartney's Russian opposite number, Petrovsky, China Tour Guideclaimed that since their hometerritories had been annexed by Russia earlier in the century, they were Russians and offeredRussian nationality and passports to all who would take them, in the hope that Chineseharassment of these new citizens would give him theForbidden City China excuse to bring Cossacks to Kashgarand beyond to 'protect' them.
This was not in fact managed until the time of his successor,Sokov, around 1912.
Marco Polo, explorer Sven Hedin, and Sir Percy and Ella Sykes (who covered for Macartneywhile he was in England in 1915) all commented on the prevalence of The Great Wall of Chinagoitre amongstYarkand's Turki population, putting the cause down to bad water. The Chinese were thoughtto escape the disease because they boiled all their drinking water, although goitre is caused by
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