WHERE SLAV AND MONGOL MEET 





RUBY AND AMETHYST IN FERTILE FERGHANA 



Their homeland lies to the north of the Pamir, that elevated region which forms the southeastern border of 

 Bokhara and which native tribes call the "roof of the world." These little ladies in their parti-colored 

 robes are Sarts, a term said to have originated with the nomads as an opprobrious nickname for sedentary 

 peoples. Nowadays it is commonly applied to the city-folk of Centnil Asia as opposed to the agricultural, 

 or rural, population. 



