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ON CENTRAL ASIAN TRACKS - PHOTOS

 
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On Central Asian Tracks 16 - Afghan escort with baggage preparing to cross affluent of Oxus. Colonel Shirin-dil Khan on extreme right. - The only book in which this photo appears. Stein was extremely greatful for the special permission from the Afghan Emir to enter and cross the Wakhan corridor. (The only time his repeated requests to visit Afghanistan was honored until much later in the 1940's on which occasion he then died and was buried in Kabul.) But for this expedition he managed to visit the locations of medieval Chinese army expeditions. And Colonel Shirin-dil Khan supplied ponies, yaks and laborers to move Stein's luggage across the snow-covered high pass into Sarikol.

 

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