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Жаители собственнаго Бадаклана. суть Тажики, Тюрки м Арабн;
ояя еунпиты и говорять по перендоки и тюркеци; жителл болбе
торныкъ округовъ суть Тажики и minTi; awbors оТДЪльЬНЫй мЪ-
стныя Hapbuis, Ho вЪ тлавнЪЯШихЪ мФетахъ жители говорятъ ло
нперсидски, Манфуль насчитываеть слВлующия нар®Ня: тагнани въ
ШагнанЪ и въ РошанЪ, ишкашими въ Инкашим%, вакхи 85
Вахан®, сантдичи въ Санглич® и въ Зебак\, мишжани вт Минжан\.

Большипство паселеня соботвенцаго Гадякиала, суто  Тажики;
Тюрки горазло богаче Тажиковъ и превосходят® ихъ храбростью и
предпр!имчивоетью вЪ ВойнФ мн въ торговл®. — '

Восточныя области Бадакшала, о которыхъ пандитъь Манфуль
сообщаеть горазло менФе, нежели © центральныхъ. ВЪ нослЪддее
время были посйищесы чденами Форсайтавой экепедицуа, W colpan-
ныя ими саФНя ВО мНогоМЪ NONOAEALTT w3nberia Пандита,

Ваханъ ') проетираетея отъ верховьевъ Цинжи по холян® той me
рвки, отъ Занга до ЯИшщкашима. Больмой и малый Намиръ при-
надлежатъ Вахавт; р. Акъ-ташъ составляетъ его границу еъ Калг-
гарей. Обя Памира густо заселены Киргизами; ВФ ‘прежнйе гбхы

1) Trotier, Vi б стр. 375: The déstrist of Wiakhan.... cumprises the valleys
enntaining the two heads of the Panjuli branch of the Oxns, and the velley
of lle Panjoh itself, от Lhe junction st Zung Jewn to Ishkashim..,,. thé great
Pawir... вв well as the Little Pamir belongs to Waklan, the Alk-tash River
forming the well recognized ‘boundary betwesn Kashgbaria and Wakluiin, Both
of the Pamirs were thiekly inlwbited by Kirgliz in foriver years, subject 1o
Wilchan, bt they are now imoesnpiell, the censtant fends between the Shighnis,
(не Wakhis, the Kirgh of the Alaf, wml lhe Kunjodis, huving rendared the
counfry guite mmsafe. The highest inhabited village in the northern vellgy is
Langar Kiahl’:, only & fow miles ahove the juuetion, and on the right bank оЁ
the stream. The Sarhadd valley (the southern Pranch) is inhabited from Sur-
hadd downwards, and there rre villages sealtered along bulh Lanks, of the
Punjak river down ta Ishkashim., Wdkhdn formerly contained three esadss 0г
bundreds, i. e. distriets, contaiuing 100 houses each—1st, Sad-i-Kila Vemt or
Barhadd exlending from Langar to Ilissar. 2nd.—Sad-i-Panjuh from Hissar to
Khendut. 3rd—Sed Ebandnt from Khandut to Sad Ishtragh. To these three
Sads has recantly been added that nf Sad Ishivagh, which Thelieve only Wecnme
a portion of Wakhan in recent times. T lies between Khanduf and the Siate
of Tshkashim, Abidnl Subhan estimates the numher о’ Кадеев in Nad Те|-
tragh at 230, and allowing 108 for esch of the oghew distriets this gives a to-
tal of 560 bonsés, with a population of whout 3,086 souls.