Text Appearing Before Image: an mark theroughly measured distances of lo Li (circ. two miles), thewhole body of Hindus in Yarkand, with Pandit Butha Maiat their head, gave me a solemn welcome (Fig. 42). Nomoney-lenders this time but hardy and respectable traders,mostly from Hoshiarpur, to whose enterprise India andBritish commerce owes most of its exports across theKara-koram. It was again a grand cavalcade, like thatwhich in 1900 had conducted me to the old countryresidence of Niaz Hakim Beg, once Yakub Begs powerfulgovernor; and as I knew now what cool palatial quarterswere awaiting me, I did not mind that my loyal Punjabismade the most of the occasion and led me by circuitousroutes through one principal Bazar after the other. It wasa manifest satisfaction to them to display their Sahib to asmany people as possible in this flourishing trading centre. I found the suburbs of Yarkand more verdant thanever, and noticed once more in the many fine poplars andelms unmistakable indications of a climate more genial than Text Appearing After Image: 42. RECEPTION BY HINDU TRADERS AT BIGIL, NEAR YARKAND.Pandit Butha Mai fourth in front, from left. Pao-tai in backg^round.
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