KASHGAR TO KARGALIK 
727 
“Adam’s a23ple.” In the most favourable cases it is as 
large as a man’s closed fist, and in every case gives its 
unhappy bearer a strangely unnatural, and even repulsive, 
appearance. It is certainly no exaggeration to say, that 
75 per cent, of the settled population of the city are 
afflicted in a more or less degree with this tumorous 
Growth. In most instances it remains until death. If 
therefore in any other town throughout Central Asia a 
man is seen walking the streets with a boghak, he may 
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confidently be pronounced an inhabitant of Yarkand ; and 
contrariwise, if you observe a man in the bazaars of 
Yarkand, whose throat is free from the disfiguring tumour, 
you may fairly presume he is a stranger from Kashgar, 
Khotan, or some other towm of East Turkestan. The 
people make no attempt to combat the affliction ; although 
in some few cases, probably in consequence of change [of 
residence, the growth is said to disappear of it.self. The 
Hindus are reputed to be acquainted with a remedy against 
the disease ; but as both they and the Andijanliks (people 
