POPULATION OF RUSSIAN PAMIRS 175 
THE KIRGHIZ KEG OF THE AUL OF MURGHAB 
A portion of them also winter, as we have seen, in the 
Alai valley. There too, in the end of May or beginning 
of June, the prosperous Kirghiz of Fergana bring their 
flocks to graze on the plentiful grass which springs up 
along the borders of the Kizil-su. They pitch their 
yeylaus or summer camjas on the banks of the river, and 
amuse themselves with their baigas or games on horse- 
back, feast, marry — in a word, make summer holiday. 
The greater portion stay only a couple of months, none 
longer than three months. The rest of the year they 
spend in their kishlaks or winter- quarters in hergana. 
