Marxo Поло. T3

дней '). Въэто время. Кишиъ былъ главным» городомъ цЪлой обла-
сти, называвшейся тАиъ же именемъ. Народъ говорилъ здЪсь особымъЪ
языкомъ. М. Поло упоминаетъ, что пастухи этой страны жили `въЪ
просторныхъ торныхъ нещерахъ. КяшиЪ, лежащой на правомъ бе-
pery p.. Варвачь, въ настоящее время не велякъ; онъ Подчиненъ
Бадавшавскому миру, но составляетъ отд®льный округъ, и его прави-
тель титулуется также миромъ. Караванный. путь изъ Кундуз® въ
Бадакшанъ проходитъ черезъ Мешхед'ь‚ оставляя  Кашщмъ въ ‘сто-
рон® ‘на право. :

'Отсюда черезъь три дня пути по пустннной ‘стран® М. Ноло
достигъ Бадакшала. Описан1ю Бадакшана М. Поло wmocsamaers
цълую главу *). Жители въего время были мусульманами и им®ли
особый языкъ. ВладЪтели производили свой родъ отъ Александра
Мажелонскаго. Страна, DO еловамъ путешественника, богатая, Ho
холодная; М. Поло говорить о'рубиновыхЪ копяхъЪ въ-горф, названной
иж% бус Ъ 1пап, о серебряныхъЪ и 0 коплх%Ъ1ар16 Загнл! *). Онъ слышалъ

 

1) Sir H. Rawlinson, Monograph, crp. 504: The miount Kkaresem again,
where Jemghid placed the most sacred of all the fires, to be transported by
Gushtaspin a later age to Cabul, I would propose to identify with tne Kishm
of the geographers in the south-west frontier of Badakhehdn, as the Chinese
orthography of the name was Ki-li-sse-mo; and Colonel Gardiner describes the
. ruins of an ancient massive building in this neighbourhoud which ‘may very
well represent the early fire temple. `

%} Tans me, crp. 165, Chapter XXIX. 1015 s3axgaaers, erp. 164: The ancient
capital of Badakhshan stood in the Dasht (or Plain) of Bahdrak, one of the
most extensive pieces of level in Badakhshan, in which rivers Vardoj, Zardeo
оп Sarghalan unite with the Kokena, and was apparently termed Jadzgin,
This was probably the city called Badakhshan by our traveller... As far as
I can estimate.... this will be from 100 to 110 miles distant from Talikan.

%) Танъ же, стр, 165: There is but one special mountain that produces them,
and it is called Syghinan, 1026, crp. 170, roropaTs: The locality of the mi-
mes is on the right bank of the Oxus, in the district of Ishkéshm Эп оп
the borders of Shighnan, the Syghinan of the texi, Taws же, стр. 166:
There is also in the same country another mountain, in which azure is found;
'tis the finest in the world, and is got ш а vein like silver, Cm.
opruBdanie Aag, ibd.: The mines of Ljwurd (whence I"Azur and Lazuli) have
been, like the Ruby-mines, celebrated .for ages. They lie in the Upper Valley
of the Kokcha, ¢alled -Kordn, within the Tract called Yemgén, of which the
popular etymology 18 Hamah Kén, or <All Mines» and ‘were visited by Wood
in 1838, The produce now is said 60 be of very inferior quaslity, and in quentity
from 30 to 60 poods (36 165 each) annmaly. The best quality sells at Bokhare