Минаев И. - Сведения о странах по верховьям Аму-Дарьи (1879)

П и г ишъ. 34 Муитпя Доходилъ до Пигиша, деревеньки, находящейся въ пяти или въ четырехъ миляхъ ниже Вамура. За Пигишомъ въ пяти миляхъ на правомъ берегу находится деревня Варъ-Рошанъ на границѣ области Роіпаиъ. Въ одномъ днѣ пути отсюда находится на правомъ берегу Вазнудъ, пограничная деревня Дарваза. Между Вазнудомън Баръ-Роіпаномъ находится долина Па-е-хожа/ ирямыкающая къ долинѣ Пянжи съ юга. Черезъ пять переходовъ за Вазнудомъ по теченіюПянжи находится Кила-Кхумбъ, главныйгородъ Дарваза. Путь туда по рѣкѣ очень труденъ; навьюченныя лошади не могутъ проходить по нему; долина очень узка и берега рѣки обрывисты. Говорятъ, Кила-Кхумбъ лежатъ къ сѣверу отъ Вамура, и по лѣтней дорогѣ изъ Вамура можно добраться до Кила- Кхумбы въ три дня; дорога эта идетъ по теченію небольшой рѣки, впадающей у Вамура въ Пянясу, съ права. За Дарваэомъ находится страна Кхотданъ, главный городъ которой называется Кулябъ J). The volume of the latter was considerably larger and its velocity greater than that of the Panj ah. From bank to bank the width of the river bed is about one and a half miles, and of this at least one mile was covered with water. The passage was effected with great difficulty. In the Sammer floods the water is said to extend from mountain to mountain, a distance of not less than five miles; it can then only be crossed by boats. The river is generally called the Murghab, but it is also known by the name of the Darya-i-Bartang, so called from the district of that name through which it flows. Three miles below the junction, on the right bank of the now united rivers, which still bear the name of Panjah, is Wamur, the chief town of Roshan. *) Ibd,, cip. 280: The furthest point down the river reached by him was Pigish, a vilage four or five miles below Winwir.

About five miles beyond Pigish on the right hank, is the village of Bar Roshan, on the frontier of Roshdn. At one day's march beyond this, also on the right bank, is Wazuud, the frontier village of Darvdz. Between Wasnud and Bar Koshin the Pa-e- Khoja valley before alluded to enters the Panjah valley on the south. Five marches along the Panjah beyond Wasuhd is Kila Khiimb, the chief town of the country of Dai'waz. The road to it along the river is very difficult, and impassable for laden horses, the valley being very narrow, and the banks of the river very precipitous. Kila Khiimb is said to lie in a northerly direction from Wamur and can he reached in three days by a short summer road, which lies up the small stream which enters the Panjah (right bank) at Wdmur. The boundary between Darwaz. and Shighnau is the watershed at the head of the Wamur ravine. The country of Darwaz possesses villages on both banks of the river Panjah. At Khiimb itself the fort is on the right bank, but some houses are on the left bank of the river. Below Darwaz is said to be the country of Khotian, the chief to wo of which is Kolab.