tashkend to margelan 
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At the time of my visit there were five thousand 
students at the different madrasas in Kokand maintained 
y donations, while three hundred were living at their 
own expense. Besides the institutions which I have just 
mentioned, there were, connected with Mohammedan in- 
struction, forty-eight mekteb-khaneh or schools for six 
hundred boys and two hundred girls, and thirty khari- 
klianeh or schools founded with money left for the 
purpose, and situated near the testators’ graves. In 
^ese some three hundred and fifty pupils are educated. 
inally, there were three Jewish schools, with sixty 
pupils. The population of Kokand was about 60,000, 
o whom 35,000 were Sarts, 2000 Kashgarians and 
aranchis, 575 Jews, 500 Gypsies (Lulis), 400 Dungans, 
100 Tatars, 100 Afghans, 12 Hindus, as usual money- 
enders, and 2 Chinese. To this add 350 Russians and a 
garrison of 1400 men. The rest were Tajiks. A dozen 
or so of Chinese are in the habit of visiting the place 
every spring with carpets from Kashgar. The town con- 
sisted of 1 1,600 houses and possessed nine cotton factories. 
During the last few years Kokand has shown a tendency 
to prosperity; the Russian quarter in particular has in- 
creased steadily. In addition to the Russian administration, 
there is also a native administration for the maintenance 
of order. The burgomaster is called kur-baski, and under 
im are four aksakals, each of whom has the supervision 
of a ‘ large ^ quarter {katta-mdhallah ) ; under them aaain 
allik-baskts, each presiding over a 
kishkmtat-mdhdlldh or “little” quarter. 
In Kokand I visited a couple of hamniam (hot baths) 
naturally without making use of them; for they offered the 
opposite of what we understand by a bath, and were rather 
hot-beds for the propagation of skin diseases. They 
were entered through a large hall, with carpet -covered 
enches and wooden columns ; this was the room for un- 
aressing m. From that you passed through a number of 
roon°'^ labyrinthine passages to dark, steamy, vaulted 
ms of different temperatures. In the middle of each 
here was a platform on which the bather is rubbed and 
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