Word: yarkand
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...teeming, primitive Kashgar the party was held up for three weeks, haggling for a caravan to take them into India. On from Kashgar, the route led 500 miles to Kargalik, through the walled, rug-making, Moslem town of Yarkand. Mutinous Chinese Nationalist troops, who had not been paid for seven months, 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...
...Indians came up one of Simla's highest, loveliest, fir-green hills to the viceregal lodge. Jawaharlal Nehru rode on a brown-and-white-spotted Yarkand pony; fierce-eyed Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and goateed Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad each came in a ricksha pulled by four runners; tall, bearded Khan Abdul Ghaffar came on his own long legs; Mohamed Ali Jinnah and his Moslem League delegation in an ancient, khaki-colored Humber sedan...
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