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TRAVELS TO LOB-NOR.
The inhabitants on the Lower Tarim number 1200 of both sexes. The following is a list of their villages,[1] with details of population:—
| Villages. | Houses. | Men. | Women. | Children. | Total. |
| Kutmet-kul | 6 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 42 |
| Akhtarma | 35 | 103 | 120 | 88 | 311 |
| Taiz-kul | 15 | 47 | 52 | 34 | 133 |
| Kara-kyr | 14 | 38 | 30 | 40 | 108 |
| Kiok-ala | 30 | 93 | 109 | 61 | 263 |
| Markat | 14 | 58 | 49 | 61 | 168 |
| Uiman-kul | 6 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 56 |
| Ehni-su | 12 | 38 | 23 | 30 | 91 |
| Airilgan | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| Total | 136 | 413 | 419 | 352 | 1184 |
The dress of the Tarimtsi consists of a camel's hair coat and trousers, a long shirt underneath, and a sheepskin cloak in winter,—a few, but these are exceptions, and only the most prosperous, wear the khalat and turban. The rich have shoes, the poor—sandals of their own make, fastened over felt stockings in winter; in summer their feet are bare. Their head-dress in winter is a lambskin cap turned up at the brim, in summer a felt hat.
The women wear a short khalat with girdle like
- ↑ The villages are here given in regular order, beginning from the mouth of the Ugen-daria, and descending the Tarim to Lake Kara-buran.
