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populations of Asia. The regions most frequented during 
the winter months were those around Rangdcul, Kosh- 
aghil, and Ak-tash. There were also several auls (tent- 
villages) in the Alichur Pamirs, some even in the Pshart 
valley, south of Kara-kul. The little aul of Murghab lay 
a short distance east of the fort. 
Captain Kuznetsoff estimated that the 1055 Kirghiz 
occupied 227 yurts (tents), and that their live-stock con- 
sisted of 20,580 sheep, 1703 yaks, 383 camels, and 280 
TAJIKS FROM ROSHAN 
horses. The Tajik population of the western Pamirs he 
estimated at 35,000. 
The eastern slopes of the Pamirs, that is the tracts 
lying east of the Sarik-kol range, belong to China. With 
regard to them, there exist of course no reliable statistics. 
The beg of Su-bashi (south of Little Kara-kul) told me, 
that in the environs of that lake there were some 300 Teit- 
Kirghiz dwelling in about 60 yurts. He himselt was chief 
of 286 yurts, most of which however lay on the east of 
the great mountain of Mus-tagh-ata. All the Kirghiz of 
the Pamirs, irrespective of the tribe to which they belong, 
