Word: kazak
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Prodigious Apple. Alma-Ata is a beautiful city amid the snow-capped Altai Mountains. This capital of the Kazak Republic is nearer Chungking than Moscow. It has 400,000 population (40,000 in 1925), was not reached by the railroad until...
...Once we rode up into the mountains to spend a weekend with a Tatar family in their hill yurt and had mare's milk and rode Kazak horses. Another day we went out to photograph all the local racial types-Chinese, White Russians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Uigurs, Manchus, Kazaks, So-lun. Each group decided to honor the visitors from America with a groaning banquet of its own foods in absolutely unrestrained Oriental quantities...
...believers among their Mohammedan citizens, a Moslem congress has been convened at Tashkent, capital of the Soviet Republic of Uzbek. The congress chose as leader of Russia's Mohammedans 82-year-old Ichan Babachan Abdumadchiktchanow. It also called upon all Mohammedans in the Uzbek, Tajik, Turkomen, Kirghiz and Kazak Soviet Socialist Republics to "wage a merciless fight against the German usurpers...
Somewhere along the bleak caravan routes the Kazak leaders had heard of a fabulous, rich and peaceful land to the south. In a place called India, the rumor ran, they could live quietly, with plenty of grass for their flocks. Turning his back on China, the Kazak's sturdy, 40-year-old chieftain Ali Yas Khan led the remnants of the tribe south...
Four hundred miles northeast of Lhasa, Tibetan soldiers stopped the caravan. Finally it was allowed to go on. Many a Kazak was killed by bandits; many of their animals died in sudden storms...