312 PHYSIOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL-ASIAN DESERTS AND OASES. 
miles from its entrance the traveler meets with Usbeg camps of felt kibitkas 
side by side the Tadjik villages. The last kibitka is passed below Iori, above which 
the type strengthens into a pure Tadjik; and, as my Tadjik caravan men testified, 

Fig. 475.—A High Valley Oasis of the Zerafshan Gorge. 
all speak a good Galcha, a language said by philologists to be a pure remnant of 
Aryan. ‘They are broad-shouldered, of medium stature, averaging something like 
5 feet 9 inches, usually with black hair, bushy black beards, dark eyes, and clean- 
