Word: turki
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rope. One day last August, the party set out for Kashgar, an ancient trading post near the Soviet border. There were 16 travelers, including 50-year-old Paxton and his wife Vincoe, an ex-Army nurse; Vice Consul Robert Dreeson; two White Russian chauffeurs and their wives & children; a Turki interpreter and his sister; his wife and four-month-old baby...
...were in possession of Yarkand, and it took Paxton's smoothest Chinese to talk his party's way through. Paxton dismissed the truck and the jeeps, and hired ten caravan men with 33 horses and a handful of camels and donkeys. A white mongrel dog named It (Turki dialect for dog) decided to join the caravan for pot luck...
...northwest. There, in the Ili valley where the flag of China should fly, a green flag with a yellow crescent moon and a five-pointed star has flown for nearly three years. The region contains about a million people (total Sinkiang population: about 4,000,000), mostly Moslem Turki farmers and Kazak horsemen who live in felt yurts (tents) and ride with rifles strapped on their backs. They are controlled by leaders trained and schooled in Russia. Behind the leaders is a well-equipped army of more than 25,000 tough young men who wear Russian-style uniforms and call...
...started off with a party of nine: myself and LIFE Photographer Bill Vandivert, a crack Chinese documentary film team, a driver, a mechanic and three gendarmes to guard us on the desert. Coming back we had to get a tenth into the car for the driver bought a Turki girl in Kashgar for $200 (rather pretty though unwashed) and perched her high on the topmost mound of baggage...